Jim DeMint
James W. DeMint (born September 2 1951) is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the fourth district of South Carolina. He is a member of the United States Republican Party and has been in Congress since 1999.
DeMint was born in Greenville, South Carolina and educated at Wade Hampton High School in Greenville, the University of Tennessee and Clemson University. He was a business owner before being elected to Congress for the first time in 1998. On June 22, 2004 he won a run-off election against former South Carolina Governor David Beasley to win the Republican nomination to replace Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings in the US Senate. He is running against Democrat nominee Inez Tenenbaum.
