Liz J. Patterson
| Liz Patterson | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 4th district |
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In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Bob Inglis |
| Member of the South Carolina Senate from the 12th District | |
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In office January 8, 1985 – January 3, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Single-member district established |
| Succeeded by | John R. Russell |
| Member of the South Carolina Senate from the 4th District | |
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In office January 8, 1980 – January 8, 1985 |
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| Preceded by | James B. Stephen |
| Succeeded by | Charles L. Powell |
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November 18, 1939 Columbia, South Carolina |
| Political party | Democratic |
Elizabeth Johnston "Liz" Patterson (born November 18, 1939 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. She was a three-term member of the United States House of Representatives. Her father, Olin D. Johnston, served as Governor of South Carolina and as a long-term member of the United States Senate.
Elizabeth Johnston, known as "Liz", was born into a political Democratic family. Her father Olin D. Johnston had been governor of the state in the 1930s and was a long-term member of the US Senate, from 1945 to his death in 1965. Her family lived outside Washington, DC in Kensington, Maryland, where she grew up during those years. She returned to South Carolina for college, graduating from Columbia College and doing graduate work at the University of South Carolina.
Johnston was attracted to politics and government, working in Washington, D.C., for the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Patterson also worked as the South Carolina director of the Head Start Program and as an assistant to Congressman James R. Mann.
She returned to live in Spartanburg County, where she was elected to the County Council, serving from 1975 to 1976. In 1978 she was elected to the South Carolina State Senate, serving from 1979 to 1986. She was the second woman in the South Carolina Senate, after Mary Gordon Ellis.
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