Former SC GOP chair Dan Ross, 83
Posted: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 9:55 pmCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Former state GOP Chairman Dan Ross, the man credited with creating South Carolina’s first-in-the-South Republican presidential primary, is dead at 83.
Ross died at a Barnwell County nursing home, Barnwell County coroner Lloyd B. Ward said Wednesday.
Ross chaired the state party from 1976 to 1980 after running the 1974 campaign of former Gov. James Edwards. Edwards was the first Republican governor elected in South Carolina since the 1890s. … Read full obituary
