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Jim Clyburn, a Democrat who has represented South Carolina's 6th congressional district since 1993 and served as House majority whip, seeks re-election in 2026 against Republican John Peterson.
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Jim Clyburn is the U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s 6th congressional district (SC-06).
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Jim Clyburn, whose full name is James Enos Clyburn, was born on July 21, 1940, in Sumter, South Carolina, the son of Enos Lloyd Clyburn, a fundamentalist minister, and his wife Almeta (née Dizzley), a beautician.
He graduated from Mather Academy in Camden, South Carolina, and then attended South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, a historically black college, where he joined the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and earned a baccalaureate in history.
His first full-time position after college was teaching at C.A. Brown High School in Charleston.
Clyburn became involved in politics during the 1969 Charleston hospital strike and worked on St. Julian Devine's successful campaign for the Charleston city council that year.
After an unsuccessful run for the South Carolina General Assembly, he joined the staff of Governor John C. West in 1971 as an advisor, becoming the first nonwhite advisor to a governor in South Carolina history.
West later appointed him Commissioner of the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission, a post he held until 1992, when he stepped down to run for Congress.
In his first congressional race, held after the 6th district was redrawn as a black-majority district following the 1990 census, Clyburn won 55% of the vote in the Democratic primary and then won the general election, becoming the first African American to represent South Carolina in Congress since George W. Murray in 1893.
He was elected vice-chairman of the House Democratic Caucus in 2003 and became caucus chair in 2006. Clyburn served as majority whip from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023, and as assistant Democratic leader from 2011 to 2019 and from 2023 to 2024.
Since 2021 he has been the only Democrat in South Carolina's congressional delegation.
Jim Clyburn announced on March 12, 2026, that he would seek re-election in the 6th district, which runs through the Black Belt and takes in Columbia and North Charleston. He was re-elected with 59.5% of the vote in 2024.
In the 2026 Democratic primary, Clyburn won renomination with 90.3% of the vote against maintenance technician Frederick Goodwin.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, he faces Republican John Peterson, president of the Deer Park 1B precinct in the Charleston County Republican Party, who won the Republican primary with 74.0% of the vote against former county party chair Maurice Washington.
