Question: Chauncey Klugh 'Greg' Gregory is a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 16th District, Gregory expressed his wish to re-enter the State Senate, and he ran for the District sixteen seat in which year, after it was vacated by newly elected Congressman Mick Mulvaney?

Context articles: Mick Mulvaney
John Spratt
Katrina Shealy
Catherine C. Ceips
Ralph Anderson (politician)
Dick Muri
Daniel E. Hydrick
Jim Denning
Chauncey K. Gregory
Rico Oller

John Michael Mulvaney ( ; born July 21, 1967) is an American politician in the Republican Party and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
 He was nominated as OMB Director by incoming President Donald Trump in December 2016 and confirmed by Senate vote (51–49) on .
 Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, he was the first Republican since 1883 to represent South Carolina 's 5 congressional district where he served until his confirmation as OMB Director in 2017.
 Mulvaney served in the South Carolina General Assembly from 2007–2011, first in the State House of Representatives and then the State Senate.
John McKee Spratt Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for South Carolina 's 5 congressional district from 1983 to 2011.
 He is a member of the Democratic Party.
 Spratt was the dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on the Budget, and the second ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, where he served on three subcommittees: Oversight and Investigations, Strategic Forces, and Air and Land Forces.
 In addition to his committee work, he co-chaired the Textile Caucus, the Bearing Caucus, and the Nuclear Energy Caucus.
 The 5th Congressional District covers all or part of 14 counties in north-central South Carolina.
 The largest cities are Rock Hill and Sumter.
 On November 2, 2010, he lost to Republican challenger Mick Mulvaney.
Katrina Frye Shealy (born December 25, 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American politician, and a member of the South Carolina State Senate.
 She is a Republican but was elected as a petition candidate from District 23 in Lexington County.
 At the time of her election she was the only woman in the South Carolina Senate but is now one of four women currently serving in the South Carolina State Senate.
Catherine C. Ceips (born 1955) is a former Republican member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 46th District from the time of a special election in 2007 until the end of the term January 14, 2009.
 Previously she was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2003 through 2006.
Ralph Anderson (born November 11, 1927 in Greenville, South Carolina) was a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 7th District from 1997-2013.
 Prior to being elected to the State Senate, Anderson served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1991-1997.
Richard Walter "Dick" Muri (born November 30, 1953) is an American politician of the Republican Party.
 He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 28th legislative district.
 Muri was appointed to the Washington State House of Representatives following (now former) State Representative Steve O'Ban's appointment to the Washington State Senate after State Senator Mike Carrell's death.
 From 2003 to 2012, he served as a Republican member of the Pierce County Council, representing the 6th District.
 In 2010, he ran as a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Washington's 9th congressional district against incumbent Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, eventually losing to Smith by nearly 10 points.
 In 2012, he again ran, this time in Washington's 10th congressional district against Denny Heck, losing by 17 points.
Daniel Edward Hydrick, Sr. was an associate justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
 He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina on August 6, 1860, and attended Wofford College before transferring to Vanderbilt University in 1880.
 He began practicing law in Spartanburg, South Carolina and was twice elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and then twice to the South Carolina Senate.
 He resigned during his second term in the South Carolina Senate to become a state trial court judge.
 His term began on December 15, 1905.
 He was a trial judge until 1909 when he was elected to a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
 He was elected by the General Assembly to take the position left vacant when Ira B. Jones was elevated to the chief justice position, and he was commissioned on April 15, 1909.
 He was reelected to a full term in 1918.
 He died on January 15, 1921, in Washington, D.C.; he had been travelling from Baltimore, Maryland to Spartanburg, South Carolina to visit his son for Christmas and contracted pneumonia during the trip.
 He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Jim Denning is a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 8th District since 2013.
 He was the sixth of nine siblings whose father was an oil field worker.
 He graduated with a B.A. in finance from Fort Hayes State University.
 Previously he served in the Kansas House of Representatives, having defeated incumbent Democrat Dolores Furtado and representing District 19 from 2011 to 2013.
 He was succeeded by Republican Stephanie Clayton.
 He was first elected to the state Senate in 2012, with support from Governor Sam Brownback, the health care industry and the Koch brothers, defeating moderate Republican incumbent Tim Owens and was re-elected to the Senate in 2016.
 On December 5, 2016, Denning was elected as the Senate Majority Leader.
 His brother Frank was the elected sheriff of Johnson County, Kansas for thirteen years, before retiring in 2017.
Chauncey Klugh 'Greg' Gregory is a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 16th District from 1992 through 2008, and again since 2011.
 In January 2008 he announced his retirement at the end of that year.
 Gregory expressed his wish to re-enter the State Senate, and he ran for the District sixteen seat in 2011 after it was vacated by newly elected Congressman Mick Mulvaney.
 He was re-elected after winning the five-way Republican primary outright, garnering seventy percent of the vote, thereby making history in South Carolina, as it was the first-five way primary where no run-off was needed.
 Gregory's current term expires in January, 2013.
 His current committees are Fish, Game and Forestry, Rules, Judiciary, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Corrections and Penology.
Thomas "Rico" Oller (born July 16, 1958) is a Republican U.S. politician from California.
 He served in the California State Assembly, representing the 4th District from 1996 to 2000, and the California State Senate, representing the 1st district from 2000 to 2004.
 In 2004, Oller ran for Congress in California's 3rd congressional district, but narrowly lost the Republican primary to former California Attorney General Dan Lungren.
 On January 10, 2008, Oller again ran for Congress, this time in California's 4th congressional district, for a seat being vacated by retiring Congressman John Doolittle.
 He faced opposition from former Congressman Doug Ose.
 On March 4, 2008, Oller dropped out of the race when California State Senator Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks) announced that he was running for Doolittle's seat.
 In a statement, Oller said his decision was "a bitter pill indeed for me to swallow."
 But, he said he was endorsing McClintock to prevent the election of Ose, whom he labeled as "an unarguably liberal Republican."
 Oller ran for the newly former 5th Assembly District in 2012 facing Madera County Supervisor Frank Bigelow in the November general election.
 Oller lost to Bigelow by 5.7%.