Ramon Schwartz Jr. (May 25, 1925 – June 30, 2017) was an American politician in the state of

South Carolina South Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia (U.S. state), Georg ...

. He served in the

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from 1969 to 1987 as a Democrat. Schwartz was an attorney and lived in

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. He served as speaker pro tempore prior to his election to the position of Speaker of the House in 1980, in which he served until his retirement in 1986. He was an alumnus of the

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, where he was a member of the

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and also the institution's first-ever student body vice president. Additionally, Schwartz is a veteran of

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. He died in Sumter in 2017 at the age of 92.

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