William Griffith (US politician)

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William Griffith is a Democratic Party member and veteran who ran for South Carolina's 4th congressional district in 2006. He ran against conservative Republican incumbent Bob Inglis and lost, receiving 32% of the vote to Inglis' 64%.

He was a US Army Reserve Captain for 13 years. He holds a B.S. & M.S. Engineering from Iowa State University 1970 and 1972, an MBA from Capital University in 1977, a Ph.D. Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1980.

Griffith has spent the last 26 years in Greenville working for Michelin’s Research and Development Corporation(MARC). While he spent five years Research and Development at Battelle Memorial Institute.

On June 14, 2006 he won the Democratic Primary.[1] He is one of 50 Fighting Dems and a member of Veterans’ Alliance for Security and Democracy.

He wrote a letter to the editor [2] in Fortune magazine (issue dated Oct 30, 2006), where he criticized the national Democratic strategy to spend campaign dollars only in the few "critical" congressional districts and ignore the rest of the democratic candidates. He emphasized that such a strategy is not productive in the long run.