Question: The chairman of the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi currently represents what South Carolina district?

Context articles: Marilyn Avila
Frederick A. Sawyer
Pike Committee
National Aeronautics and Space Act
Mickey Michaux
Chris Rector
United States House Select Committee on Benghazi
Charles Cochran (South Carolina)
Trey Gowdy
United States House Select Committee on Alleged Abstraction of Books from the Library of the House

Marilyn Avila represents the 40th district on the North Carolina House of Representatives.
 She first won office in the 2006 election.
 She chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Science and Technology, Unemployment Fraud Task Force.
 Rep. Avila also sits on the Appropriations Committee, Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, Commerce and Job Development Committee, Education Committee, Ethics Committee, House Select Committee on Certificate of Need Process and Related Hospital Issues, House Select Committee on Education Reform, House Select Committee on State-Owned Assets, State Personnel Committee, and Transportation Committee.
Frederick Adolphus Sawyer (December 12, 1822July 31, 1891) was a United States Senator from South Carolina.
 Born in Bolton, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools, graduated from Harvard University in 1844, taught school in New England from 1844 to 1859, and took charge of the State normal school at Charleston, South Carolina in 1859.
 He returned to the North during the Civil War, and returned to Charleston in February 1865 where he was active in advancing Reconstruction measures.
 On the night of April 14, 1865, Sawyer was at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. and witnessed the assassination of President Lincoln.
 He was appointed collector of internal revenue in the second South Carolina district in 1865, and upon the readmission of the State of South Carolina to representation, Sawyer was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, serving from July 16, 1868, to March 4, 1873.
 While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Education (Forty-first Congress) and a member of the Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-second Congress).
The Pike Committee is the common name for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the period when it was chaired by Democratic Representative Otis G. Pike of New York.
 The Select Committee had originally been established in February 1975 under the chairmanship of Congressman Lucien Nedzi of Michigan.
 Following Nedzi's resignation in June, the committee was reconstituted with Pike as chair, in July 1975, with its mandate expiring January 31, 1976.
 Under Pike's chairmanship, the committee investigated illegal activities by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA).
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub.L.
 85–568 ) is the United States federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
 The Act, which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, was drafted by the United States House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration and on July 29, 1958 was signed by President Eisenhower.
 Prior to enactment, the responsibility for space exploration was deemed primarily a military venture, in line with the Soviet model that had launched the first orbital satellite.
 In large measure, the Act was prompted by the lack of response by a US military infrastructure that seemed incapable of keeping up the space race.
Henry McKinley "Mickey" Michaux Jr. (born September 4, 1930) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's thirty-first House district since 1983.
 He previously served from 1973 through 1977.
 His district includes constituents in Durham County.
 s of 2014 , Michaux is the longest-serving member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
 In the 2007-2008 session, Michaux served as senior chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and chairman of the House Select Committee on Street Gang Prevention.
Christopher W. Rector (born July 12, 1951) is an American politician and entrepreneur.
 Rector served as a Republican State Senator from Maine's 22nd District, representing much of Knox County, including Rockland and his residence in Thomaston.
 He graduated from the Boston University College of General Studies and earned a B.A. from the University of Southern Maine.
 He attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2006 on a Brooks Fellowship.
 He served in the Maine House of Representatives from 2002-2006.
 He served as Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development, and also served on the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology and Joint Select Committee on Regulatory Reform.
 He serves on the Community Preservation Advisory Committee, the Maine Economic Growth Council, and the board of the Maine Compact for Higher Education.
 He is co-chair of Maine Solutions, a consensus building training and facilitation group for legislators and public officials.
 He helped to develop the Midcoast Leadership Academy which is offered classes in leadership development.
 He was appointed to and has served on the Joint Select Committee on Research, Development and the Innovation Economy in the summer of 2006 the Joint Select Committee on Prosperity in the summer of 2007, and the Joint Select Committee on Maine's Energy Future in the winter of 2009.
The United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi was created after Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner, on May 2, 2014, proposed that a House select committee would be formed to further investigate the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012.
 During that event, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya was attacked, resulting in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to that country, J. Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans.
 On May 8, 2014, the House voted 232–186 to establish the select committee, with 225 Republicans and 7 Democrats in favor, and 186 Democrats voting against.
 The chairman of the committee is Representative Trey Gowdy from South Carolina.
Charles B. Cochran was the fifteenth intendant (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina, serving one term from 1805 to 1806.
 He was elected on September 9, 1805.
 At the time, he lived at the house then-numbered 67 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina.
 He had previously served as the federal marshal of the South Carolina District from 1795 to 1802.
 In 1806, he was elected treasurer of South Carolina for the lower division.
 Cochran died on August 21, 1833.
 He is buried at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul in Charleston, South Carolina.
Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III (born August 22, 1964) is an American attorney, politician and former prosecutor.
 He currently serves as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina 's 4 congressional district .
 He is a member of the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party.
 His district includes much of the Upstate region of South Carolina, including Greenville and Spartanburg.
United States House Select Committee on Alleged Abstraction of Books from the Library of the House