Senator jim demint biography

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James W. "Jim" DeMint

Becoming president of The Heritage Foundation is "like coming home," says Jim DeMint, who rose from modest South Carolina roots and a career in marketing to build and lead a resurgent conservative caucus in the U.S. Senate. Heritage's public policy research, DeMint says, informed him as a citizen and inspired his entry into politics and government.

On April 4, 2013, Jim succeeded Edwin J. Feulner as president of the leading think tank. After stepping down from the Senate seat to which South Carolinians twice elected him, he functioned as president-elect of Heritage in a three-month transition. Feulner, president since 1977, was a founding trustee in 1974.

"I'm humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation," Jim said during the transition. "He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored t Senator jim demint voting record.