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"South Carolina Congressman" John Jenrette Signed FDC Dated 1930 Mueller COA

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    "South Carolina Congressman" John Jenrette Signed FDC Dated 1930 .
    This item is certified authentic by
    Todd Mueller Autographs
    and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
    ES-6347E
    John Wilson Jenrette Jr.
    (born May 19, 1936) is an American former
    politician
    from
    South Carolina
    , best known for his involvement in the
    ABSCAM
    corruption scandal, and being the husband of
    Playboy
    model
    Rita Jenrette
    . He served in the
    U.S. House of Representatives
    as a
    Democrat
    from January 1975 until December 1980. He was convicted of accepting a
    bribe
    in the
    FBI
    's
    Abscam
    operation. Jenrette was born in
    Conway
    ,
    South Carolina
    in 1936 and grew up in
    Loris, South Carolina
    . He graduated from Loris High School, in 1954. He then earned a B.A. at
    Wofford College
    in 1958. After graduating from
    law school
    at the
    University of South Carolina
    , worked as a city attorney, then a judge, as he attempted to reach higher office. Jenrette was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives as a
    Democrat
    in 1964, where he represented his native town of
    Myrtle Beach
    . He retired from the state house to run for a seat in the U.S. House in 1972. Jenrette defeated seventeen-term Congressman
    John L. McMillan
    in the primary, but lost the general election to
    Republican
    Edward Lunn Young
    . Undaunted, Jenrette again ran for the same seat in 1974. In part because of the extreme unpopularity of Republican
    Richard Nixon
    and the
    Watergate scandal
    , Jenrette won. Jenrette, a
    liberal
    , seemed out of place representing his rather
    conservative
    waterfront congressional district. However, he was locally well-known, and the
    South Carolina Republican Party
    was not especially well-organized at the time in that part of the state. Jenrette easily defeated Young again in 1976 and was unopposed in 1978. Jenrette is most famous for two things during his days as a Congressman. First, he allegedly had sex with his then-wife,
    Rita Jenrette
    , behind a pillar on the steps of the
    Capitol Building
    during a break in a late night session of Congress. (The comedy group "
    Capitol Steps
    " take their name from this escapade. Second, he was charged with and convicted of accepting a ,000
    bribe
    in the FBI sting operation known as
    Abscam
    which was conducted in 1980. He was recorded saying he had been given a cash bribe by an associate. Jenrette was sentenced to two years in prison, of which he served 13 months.
    His wife, Rita, separated from him in January 1981 and the two divorced later the same year. Jenrette was defeated for reelection in 1980 and resigned from Congress on December 10, just days before the end of his term. He subsequently ran a public-relations firm called Lehuguenot, Ltd.,
    [6]
    in his native
    Myrtle Beach
    , and developed property in nearby
    Cherry Grove
    .