predecessor successor party office birth_date term_start birthname article_title term_end name
raymond a. harris dr. george g. graham republican chairman of the south carolina republican party 11 august 1939 1971 charles kenneth powell c. kenneth powell
 1974 c. kenneth powell
c. kenneth powell

c. kenneth powell -lrb- born august 8 , 1939 -rrb- was the chairman of the south carolina republican party from 1971-1974 .
c. kenneth powell was active in the scgop , where he first worked on floyd spence 's 1962 campaign for congress as a republican .
he ran several times for elective office and became chair of the richland county republican party in 1970 .
powell served the s.c. republican party as its chair from 1971 to 1974 .
the election of 1974 was a landmark year for the party with the victory of james b. edwards , the first republican governor of the state since reconstruction .
