Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (born January 1, 1922) was a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to January 3, 2005. [v http://bioguide. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... State nickname: Palmetto State Other U.S. States Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Governor Mark Sanford (R) Official languages English Area 82,965 km² (40th)  - Land 78,051 km²  - Water 4,915 km² (6%) Population (2000)  - Population {{{2000Pop}}} (26th)  - Density 51. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Hollings was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He went to The Citadel and received a B.A. in 1942; he later attended the University of South Carolina and received a LL.B. in 1947. He is married to Rita "Peatsy" Liddy and has four children. He is a Lutheran. Motto: Fedes Mores Juraque Curat Nickname: The Holy City, The Palmetto City, The Marina City, Chucktown, The Big C-H-S, The Big Sweet Grass Basket Location in South Carolina Founded  -Incorporated 1670   County Berkeley Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. ... A Cadet color guard at a Friday afternoon parade. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... This article is about the year. ... The University of South Carolina (also known as USC, South Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, coeducational, research university. ... The degree of Bachelor of Laws is the principal academic degree in law in most common law countries. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ...

Hollings served as an officer in the U.S. Army's 323rd and 457th Artillery units from 1942 to 1945, during World War II, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He was first elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1948; he was subsequently elected lieutenant governor of the state in 1955 and Governor in 1958. He was governor from 1959 until 1963. He sought the Democratic nomination for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1962, but lost to Olin D. Johnston. The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... This article is about the year. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration and is the fourth highest award for bravery, heroism or meritorious service. ... The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A list of South Carolina Governors. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (November 18, 1896 - April 18, 1965) was a Politician from the U.S. State of South Carolina. ...

Johnston died on April 18, 1965, however, and Hollings was elected to fill his Senate seat in a 1966 special election. He was subsequently elected to a full six-year term in 1968 and served for six full terms. For 37 years (until 2003), he served alongside Republican Strom Thurmond, making them the longest-serving Senate duo ever. The two generally had a good relationship despite their sharp philosophical differences. Only Thurmond, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, Carl Hayden and John Stennis served longer in the Senate. April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Strom Thurmond James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to April 1956 and November 1956 to 1964 as a Democrat and from 1964 to 2003 as a Republican. ... Robert C. Byrd Robert Carlyle Byrd (born November 20, 1917) is a West Virginia Democrat serving in the United States Senate. ... Edward Moore Kennedy, (born February 22, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts) is the senior Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. ... Office: Senior Senator, Hawaii Political party: Democratic Term of office: January 1963 – Present Preceded by: Oren E. Long Succeeded by: Incumbent (2011) Date of birth: September 7, 1924 Place of birth: Honolulu, Hawaii Marriage: Margaret Shinobu Awamura Daniel Ken Inouye (born September 7, 1924) is the senior United States Senator... Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877_January 25, 1972) was the first United States Senator to serve seven terms, and holds the record for combined service in both houses of the United States Congress - he served continuously from February 19, 1912 to January 2, 1969. ... John Cornelius Stennis (August 3, 1901 - April 23, 1995) was a Senator from the state of Mississippi. ...

He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the presidential election of 1984. The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ...

On August 4, 2003, he announced that he would not run for re-election in November 2004. Republican Jim DeMint succeeded him. August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jim DeMint James H. Jim DeMint (born September 2, 1951) is a U.S. Senator from South Carolina since 2005. ...

As a senator, Hollings was noted for his support for legislation that was in the interests of the established media distribution industry (such as the proposed "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act") and was described by opponents as 'Hollywood Hollings' or the 'Senator from Disney'. Hollings also sponsored the Online Personal Privacy Act (S. 2201). The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA), known in early drafts as the Security Systems and Standards Certification Act (SSSCA), and sometimes derisively called the Consume But Dont Try Programming Anything bill, is a proposed US law which would prohibit any kind of technology which can be... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...

Hollings was generally considered to be a liberal supportive of many civil rights bills. He was the only southern senator not to vote against re-authorizing the Voting Rights Act in 1982. He was a staunch fiscal conservative, and was one of the namesakes for the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, an attempt to put limits on government spending. In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... The United States Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the requirement that would-be voters take literacy tests and provided for federal registration of African American voters in areas that had less than 50% of eligible voters registered. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Gramm-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act, passed in 1985 by Senators Ernest Hollings (D-South Carolina), Warren Rudman (R-New Hampshire) and Phil Gramm (R-Texas), was aimed at cutting the budget deficit, at the time the largest in history. ...

Hollings penned a controversial editorial in the May 6, 2004 Charleston Post and Courier, where he argued that Bush invaded Iraq because "spreading democracy in the Mideast to secure Israel would take the Jewish vote from the Democrats." May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

External links

• Center for Responsive Politics figures on Hollings' funding
• Salon article on the Online Personal Privacy Act
• LawMeme article about the Online Personal Privacy Act