Ernest Frederick " Fritz " Hollings ( born January 1, 1922 ) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as well as the 106th Governor of South Carolina ( 1959 – 1963 ) and the 77th Lieutenant Governor ( 1955 – 1959 ).

In, 1962, during Hollings ' term as Governor, the Confederate flag went up above the South Carolina Statehouse where it was flown underneath the US and state flags.

* Fritz Hollings, former U. S. Senator from South Carolina, former Governor of South Carolina, 1984 U. S. Presidential candidate

Hollings, then serving as Governor, attacked the Senator as " the tool of the Northern labor bosses ", but Johnston defeated Hollings by a 2-1 margin.

The base was eventually turned over to the South Carolina Air National Guard and renamed McEntire ANG Base in October 1961 by Governor Ernest F. Hollings.

* January 1 – Ernest " Fritz " Hollings, U. S. Senator from South Carolina

Hollings served as an officer in the U. S. Army's 323rd and 457th Artillery units from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, and was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in direct support of combat operations from December 13, 1944 to May 1, 1945 in France and Germany.

Hollings oversaw the last executions in South Carolina before the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia which temporarily banned capital punishment.

Through a partisan 54-44 vote on May 6, 1999 ( with Senator Fritz Hollings ( D-SC ) providing the only Democratic Senator vote in support ), the Senate passed S. 900.

The TSA was created as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, sponsored by Don Young in the United States House of Representatives and Ernest Hollings in the Senate, passed by the 107th U. S. Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on.

With the influence of both U. S. representative Alex McMillan and Senator Ernest Hollings, the reversal of the original ruling was made after further review by the FAA.

* 1966-Marshall Parker, to run for the U. S. Senate in South Carolina ; twice defeated by Fritz Hollings

They were famously lambasted by Democratic senator Fritz Hollings as " Buffcoat and Beaver.

In later episodes, Tom Anderson uses the Hollings mispronunciation once, and on at least one occasion refers to them as " Penis and Butt-Munch.

Later, Schools of Commerce ( founded 1889 ), Education ( f. 1878 ) and Domestic Science ( f. 1880 ) were added along with colleges at Didsbury, Crewe, Alsager and the former Domestic and Trades College ( f. 1911 ), latterly Hollings College.

On 1 January 1977, the polytechnic merged with the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College, and on 1 January 1983 with City of Manchester College of Higher Education.

The University was located on seven sites of which five were in Manchester ( All Saints, Aytoun, Didsbury, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Hollings ) and two were in Cheshire ( Alsager and Crewe ) and has begun to ' rationalise ' its estate with a view to reducing the number of sites to two.

It was planned in 1972 as a single central library but on the mergers of the Didsbury College of Education and Hollings College with the Polytechnic it became a central library and administrative centre for the seven library sites.

The Hollings Faculty offers the largest concentration of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in food, clothing, and hospitality studies and related fields in the UK with over 3500 full-time, part-time and sandwich programme students.

Hollings Faculty is located in Fallowfield, three miles south of Manchester city centre and has good teaching and learning facilities.

In 1966, former governor Ernest " Fritz " Hollings won South Carolina's other Senate seat in a special election.

Thurmond and Hollings had a very good relationship, despite their often stark philosophical differences.

Hollings was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Adolph G. and Wilhelmine Hollings and was raised at 338 President St. in the Hampton Park Terrace neighborhood from the age of ten through enrolling in college.

Hollings is a brother of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.

He is married to Rita Liddy " Peatsy " Hollings.

He had four children ( Michael, Helen, Patricia Salley, and Ernest the 3rd ) with his first wife, ( Martha ) Patricia Salley Hollings.

Ken Hollings of Sight & Sound described Mewtwo as " brooding, articulate and vengeful where the other Pokémon remain bright blobs of wordless energy ", and " Like a troubled elder brother, Mewtwo represents an older order of experience.

Only Thurmond, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, Carl Hayden, John Stennis and Ted Stevens served longer in the Senate than Hollings.

" In February 1969, Hollings testified as to what he had seen on his fact-finding tours in front of the Senate Select Committee on Hunger and Human Needs.

At the time, Eastland and Stennis were the longest-serving Senate duo in American history, though their record was subsequently surpassed by Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, who served together for 36 years.

He and Eastland were at the time the longest serving Senate duo in American history, later broken by the South Carolina duo of Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings.

In the late 20th century, leaving aside injudicious name-calling by senator Ernest Hollings to fellow Democrat Howard Metzenbaum on the floor of the Senate, the Crown Heights riots of 1991 were a violent expression of tensions within a very poor urban community, pitting African American residents against followers of Hassidic Judaism.

On the House / Senate conference decision to bolster the Department of Commerce and support the Clinton Administration priorities, President Clinton remarked, “ I commend the congressional leadership, Senator Ernest Hollings, Senator Pete Domenici, Congressman Neal Smith, and Congressman Harold Rogers, for their foresight and support in revitalizing this country through these programs.

DeMint declared his candidacy for the Senate on December 12, 2002, after Hollings announced that he would retire after the 2004 elections.

In 1981 Metzenbaum was insulted on the floor of the Senate when Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina called him the " senator from B ' nai Brith ".

With Fritz Hollings from South Carolina, he was one of only two Democrats in the Senate to vote against the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Inglis vacated the seat in 1998 to run for the Senate against Democratic incumbent Ernest Hollings.

George Voinovich of Ohio was perhaps the most recent best-known deficit hawk in the United States Senate, as were Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, Phil Gramm of Texas, Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, and Bob Dole of Kansas during their years in the Senate.

Wilson was mentioned as a possible candidate for retiring Senator Fritz Hollings ' seat in 2004, but he decided to run for a second full term and beat his opponents, Democrat Michael Ray Ellisor and Constitution Party nominee Steve Lefemine, with 65 percent of the vote.

He retained his seat despite challenges from Strom Thurmond in the Democratic primary in 1950 and Ernest Hollings in the 1962 primary.

Hollings unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the presidential election of 1984.

Prominent liberals in the Democratic Party like senators Tom Harkin, Ted Kennedy, Claiborne Pell, and Carol Moseley Braun voted in favor of the legislation while many conservative-to-moderate Democrats such as senators John Breaux, Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings, and Sam Nunn and representatives such as John Murtha and Gene Taylor voted against it.