Arthur Ravenel Jr. (29 March 1927-16 January 2023) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SC 1) from 3 January 1987 to 3 January 1995, succeeding Thomas F. Hartnett and preceding Mark Sanford.
Biography[]
Arthur Ravenel Jr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1927, and he served in the US Marine Corps from 1945 to 1946 and as a Democratic state representative from 1953 to 1959. He became a Republican in the early 1960s, amid the whitelash caused by the Civil Rights movement, and he mounted several unsuccessful bids for office. However, he served in the State Senate from 1981 to 1987, in the US House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995, and in the State Senate from 1997 to 2005. Ravenel was a racist who called the NAACP the "National Association for Retarded People", said that people arriving "fashionably late" were on "Black time", and was a supporter of the Confederate flag being flown at the State House. He died in 2023.