Opinion ID: 1378507
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Heading: ravenel's biography

Text: Ravenel was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 14, 1938. He resided in Charleston with his parents until he graduated from high school in 1956. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire during the 1956-57 school year. In September, 1957 he entered Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1961. For one year thereafter, he was engaged in world-wide travel as a recipient of a Corning Glassworks Fellowship. From September, 1962 until June, 1964, he was a student at the Harvard Business School. Shortly thereafter, Ravenel was employed in New York City by an investment banking firm known as Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, where he worked until September, 1966. The employment was terminated when he accepted a White House Fellowship. He lived in Washington, D.C., until September of 1967. At the conclusion of the White House Fellowship, Ravenel moved back to New York and was again employed by Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. He remained in New York, working with this firm until March 20, 1972. On this date he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and opened a regional office for Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. In June of 1973, he started his own investment banking firm, which business he continues to operate. In the early part of 1974, Ravenel announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for Governor. Shortly thereafter, the suit brought by McLane (referred to previously) was instituted. The order declared that Ravenel was not ineligible to enter the Democratic primary. This order was not appealed. In the ensuing Democratic primary on July 30, 1974, Ravenel received the highest number of votes. It is the position of Ravenel that he has at all times since birth been a citizen and resident of South Carolina. He submits that his fifteen-and-one-half-years absence from September, 1956 until March 20, 1972, was of a temporary nature and for the purpose of attending school and procuring training desirable and necessary for the avocation which he intended to pursue, and in which he is now engaged in South Carolina. His position may be fairly summarized by his testimony as follows: I had a great interest in securing the best possible training that I could get in the field that I wanted to work in and that was finance and I went to the place where that training was the best, and that place was on Wall Street and I intended to go to Wall Street and work until I secured what I thought was complete training, never planning to maintain a permanent presence in New York City. In support of this contention several of his witnesses testified that, at various times throughout the years since college, he had stated to them he intended to return to South Carolina. No specific time for his return was ever indicated.