QUICK FACT: Senate Election 2004

As the Republican candidate for the South Carolina Senate in 2004, Katherine scored an upset victory in Horry County, including North Myrtle Beach which makes up nearly 70% of the SENATE District population. She nearly unseated one of the most powerful ‘Good Old Boy’ Democrat Senators in the state Sen. Dick Elliott, who had never lost an election in Horry County, and was first elected to public office in the segregation era of 1962.

Senator Elliott managed a slim victory mainly because of his Democrat base in Dillon, Marlboro and Marion Counties.

Jenerette missed sending Elliott into retirement by a mere 1,880 votes out of over 30,500 votes cast in a race that would have made her the only female Republican Senator in the State of South Carolina.