Elizabeth colbert busch biography
Elizabeth colbert busch biography
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch
American economist and politician (born 1954)
Elizabeth Colbert Busch (born December 10, 1954)[1][2] is an American economist and politician who is the Director of Business Development at Clemson University's Restoration Institute,[3] and was the Democratic Party nominee for the 2013 special election for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, losing to Mark Sanford.[4][5] She is the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.[6]
Early life and education
Born in St.
Louis, Missouri, Colbert Busch is the eighth of the eleven children of James William Colbert Jr., who served as the first Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina, and homemaker Lorna (née Tuck) Colbert.
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The Colbert family is of 15/16ths Irish ancestry; one of her paternal great-great-grandmothers was of German and English descent.[9][10] Many o