Jenny Horne
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Jenny Horne | |
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Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives for District 94 | |
Assumed office 2009 |
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Personal details | |
Born | Summerville, South Carolina, U.S. |
October 12, 1972
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Marc F. Horne (m. 1996) |
Children | 2 |
Jenny Anderson Horne (born October 12, 1972) is an attorney and a Republican member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Early life
Jenny Anderson Horne, the daughter of Cynthia Williams[1] and John Daniel Anderson, Jr., was born on October 12, 1972 in Dorchester County, South Carolina.[2] She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where she earned a bachelor's in English and a law degree.[3]
Career
Horne is an attorney.[4]
A member of the Republican Party, she has served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives since 2009.[2] In a 2015 speech on the House floor in which she claimed to be a direct descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, she advocated the quick removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the grounds of the state capitol.[5]
Reportedly, Rep. Horne never researched her claim of descent from Davis, but was told of it by her grandfather.[6] This was disclosed as her connection to Davis came under scrutiny.[7] In response, Rep. Horne indicated she was not inclined to research the claim.[8]
Horne is not descended from the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. She is descended from James Jefferson Davis . Horne is his great-great-great-granddaughter.[9] [10] [11] This particular line of her genealogical profile is thus:
1 Cross Ragland DAVIS b: ABT 1800 d: 1860/1870 + Huldah DIGBY b: 1804 d: 1870
2 James Jefferson DAVIS b: 1841/1842 d: 20 Mar 1879 + Elizabeth Caroline CARROLL b: 4 May 1836 d: 18 May 1917
3 Alice DAVIS b: 18 May 1875 d: 2 Nov 1900 + William G PRYOR b: Feb 1862 d: aft 1940
4 Lida Mae PRYOR b: 1900 d: DEAD + Fred James WILLIAMS b: Oct 1897 d: DEAD
5 James Pryor WILLIAMS b: 29 Aug 1923 d: 10 Oct 1987 + Frances Imogene SWICEGOOD b: 12 Dec 1926 d: 28 May 2007
6 Cynthia WILLIAMS + John Daniel ANDERSON Jr.
7 Jenny ANDERSON Horne
It was reported in July 2015, Horne was considering a challenge of U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford for the 1st District congressional seat.[12]
Personal life
Horne's husband, Marc F. Horne, is a realtor. They were married on May 11, 1996.[2] They have two children.[2]
References
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- ↑ Michael E. Miller, Jenny Horne: How a descendant of the president of the Confederacy helped vanquish his flag, The Washington Post, July 9, 2015
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- ↑ Brenda Rindge, Jenny Horne: She needed to get the flag debate back on track, The Post and Courier, July 9, 2015
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- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/shpg1/permalink/1243967362285138/
- ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pprokasy&id=I12837
- ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=catherineburr357&id=I54829
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External links
- Use mdy dates from October 2015
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Living people
- South Carolina lawyers
- South Carolina Republicans
- Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives
- University of South Carolina alumni
- 1972 births
- People from Summerville, South Carolina
- Women state legislators in South Carolina
- 20th-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American lawyers
- People from Dorchester County, South Carolina