James E. Clyburn
Democrat · SC-6 · U.S. House
SC-6 — U.S. House
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Bio
James Enos Clyburn is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district. First elected in 1992, Clyburn is serving his 17th term, representing a congressional district that includes most of the majority-black precincts in and around Columbia and Charleston, as well as most of the majority-black areas outside Beaufort and nearly all of South Carolina's share of the Black Belt. Since Joe Cunningham's departure in 2021, Clyburn has been the only Democrat in South Carolina's congressional delegation as well as the dean of the state's delegation since 2011 after fellow Democrat John Spratt lost re-election.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 33.7 years
- First took office
- 1993 (17 terms)
- Seniority
- 14 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 86
- House Majority Whip · 2019–2023
- Assistant House Minority Leader · 2021–2024
- relative of George Washington Murray
- Columbia, SC · 803-799-1100
- Kingstree, SC · 843-355-1211
- Santee, SC · 803-854-4700
- Sumter, SC · 803-883-5020
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $182k – $480k
- Liabilities
- $250k – $600k
- Net worth
- −$418k – $230k
- Since 2019
- +$466k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
James E. Clyburn's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
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Caucuses & committees
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Caucuses
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Most and least aligned members
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Recent notable votes
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The New Republic · September 22, 2026
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The Root · September 15, 2026 
Rep. Jim Clyburn’s Supreme Court plan isn’t worth discussingRep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., is a powerful and respected member of Congress who has generally pushed this country in the right direction, but his suggestion that the Supreme Court be expanded from nine justices to 13 is a waste of time and energy. The same holds…
Biztoc.com · September 1, 2026
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