Cathy Jane Harvin (née Brand; December 31, 1953 – December 4, 2010) was an American Democratic politician and legislator from

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. Born to Janet and Hyman Brand in

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, she graduated from the

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in 1975. In 2006, she was elected to the

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, from

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, serving until her death at age 56 from

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, at the Medical University of South Carolina hospital in Charleston. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Alexander Harvin, III, who died 2005, she succeeded him when she was appointed to the same seat.

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