Personal Information

• Residing at 2825 Wilton Rd., Springdale
• Born July 31, 1947 in Charleston
• Son of the late Hugh deVeaux and the late Wray (Graves) Wilson
• Graduated from Washington & Lee Univ., B.A., 1969
• Univ. of S.C., J.D., 1972
• Dec. 30, 1977 Married to Roxanne Dusenbury McCrory, 4 children, Michael Alan McCrory-Wilson, Addison Graves, Jr., Julian Dusenbury and Hunter Taylor
• Mem. & former Pres./Chm.: Cayce Rotary Club
• Sheriff's Dept. Law Enforcement Adv. Council, Reserve Offs. Assn
• Lexington Co. Historical Soc.
• Co. Comm. & Resource Dev. Com.
• Co. Amer. Heart Assn.
• Mid-Carolina Mental Health Assn. & Bank of America Lexington Adv. Bd.
• Mem. & Dir. or former Dir. of: Cayce_West Columbia Jaycees
• Kidney Foundation
• S.C. Lung Assn.
• Alston Wilkes Soc.
• Cayce-West Columbia Chamber of Commerce & Congaree Land Trust
• Saluda Shoals Park Foundation
• Lake Murray Tourism & Recreation Assn.
• Member of Cola. World Affairs Council
• First Presbyterian Church, Cola.
• Nature Conservancy
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes
• Sinclair Lodge No. 154
• Jamil Temple
• WOW
• Mil. Order of the World Wars
• Fulmer PTA
• Amer. Legis. Exchange Concil
• Lexington , Irmo, West Metro and Chapin Chambers of Commerce
• Homebuilders Assn.
• Amer. Legion (Guignard Post)
• 40 & 8
• Dutch Fork and Lexington Co. Rep. Women's Clubs (Assoc.)
• Exec. Council of Indian Waters Council, Boy Scouts of America
• Former Judge, Town of Springdale
• Former VC, Co. Registration & Elections Comm.
• State Dev. Bd., 1975-80
• Former staff mem., Sen. Strom Thurmond & Congressman Floyd Spence
• Sutdent Asst., U.S. Atty., 1971
• Dep. Gen. Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Energy, SES 5, Washington, 1981-82 with Energy Secy. Jim Edwards
• Elected 1st State Youth VC, S.C. Rep. Party, 1970
• Campaign Mgr. for Congressman Spence 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982 & 1998
• 1976 Citizens ofr Reagan Second Dist., Chm.
• 1986 Dist. Chm. for Gov. Carroll Campbell
• 1988 & 1992 Bush for Pres. Second Dist., Chm.
• Thurmond for Sen., Second Dist., Chm. 1990, State VC 1996
• Del. for Gov. George W. Bush, 2000 Rep. Natl. Convention
• Co-founder, First Tues. Rep. Club
• Nominated by RNC Chm. Lee Atwater for U.S. delegation to observe Bulgarian Parliamentary elections, June, 1990
• Lecturer on dem. process, Bulgaria, 1990, Slovakia, 1994, and Russian Siberia, 1995
• NCSL Delegation to Tiawan, 1996
• Cola. World Affairs Council, Sister Cities Delegation to Bulgaria, Romania and Russia, 1997
• Appted. by Pres. Bush to the U.S. Intergovernmental Adv. COuncil on Educ., 1990-91
• Southeastern Regional Vision for Educ. Comm., 1990
• Elected Chm., Sen. Gen. Com., 1995
• Cola. Coll. Bd. of Visitors, 1996-
• Coker Coll. Bd. of Trustees, 1998
• Common Cause of S.C., Legis. Award, 1990
• Coll. Rep. Confederation, Legislator of the Year, 1990
• Irmo Fire Dist., Distinguished Public Serv. Award, 1991
• WOW, Citizenship Award
• S.C. Jaycees, State House Award, 1993
• S.C. Cable TV Assn., Legislator of the Year, 1993
• S.C. Assn. of Taxpayers, Senator of the Year, 1993
• Rotary Club, Paul Harris Fellow
• NRA, Defender of Freedom Award
• Order of the Palmetto, 1995
• Home Builders of S.C., Hammer & Trowel Award, 1995
• Retired Cola. Police Offs., Public Serv. Award, 1995
• S.C. Policy Council Palmetto Leadership Award, 1995
• Gun Owners of S.C., Freedom Award, 1996
• Amer. Legion Senator of the Year, 1997
• NFIB/SC Guardian of Small Bus., 1998
• 1999 Greater Irmo Chamber of Commerce Ambassador of the Year
• S.C. Assn. of Taxpayers Friend of the Taxpayer Award, 1999
• S.C. Child Care Assn. Legislator of the Year, 2000
• United Way Comm. Builder Award
• Mil. serv.: USAR, 1972-75
• SCARNG, 1975-
• Currently Col. & serving as Staff Judge Advocate for 218th Mech. Inf. Brigade
• Prev. serv. in Sen. 1985-01.