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Con Chellis

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Con Chellis
Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
from the 94th district
Assumed office
January 9, 2019
Preceded byKatie Arrington
Personal details
Born (1978-11-16) November 16, 1978 (age 46)
Charleston, South Carolina
Political partyRepublican
SpouseTara Chellis
Children3
EducationEast Tennessee State University

Converse A. Chellis IV, usually known as Con Chellis is an American insurance agent and politician from Summerville, South Carolina, elected in 2018 to the South Carolina House of Representatives to succeed fellow Republican Katie Arrington.

Background

Born November 16, 1978 in Charleston, South Carolina, he is the son of Converse Chellis III and Sharon Chellis, and a 2002 graduate of East Tennessee State University in political science. Chellis has served since 2016 on the county council of Dorchester County. On February 21, 2009 he married Tara Lorraine, a chiropractor; they have three children.[1][2]

Legislative race

On October 2, 2017, Chellis he was running for the 94th district seat, representing portions of Charleston and Dorchester counties [3], as incumbent Kate Harrington had announced that she was running against incumbent Congressman Mark Sanford in the Republican primary.[4] He won the June 2, 2018 primary, with 62.8% of the vote to 31.14% for Evan Guthrie and 6.07% for Glenn Zingarino.[5] On November 6, he won the general election, receiving 8,450 to 4,960 for Democratic nominee Damian Daly (who had also been the Democratic nominee in the 2014 and 2016 races for this seat[6]).[7]

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