and 2015; he paid a little over $500,000 for upkeep, maintenance, and cleaning. McMaster has also reportedly paid over $16,000 in fines for ordinance violations. He has suggested that the fines were accrued because tenants trashed the properties. Electoral history McMaster ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1986, for lieutenant governor in 1990, and for governor in 2010. He was elected attorney general in 2002 and 2006, lieutenant governor in 2014, and governor in 2018. Notes References External links Governor of South Carolina Henry McMaster for Governor 2023 Swearing in of Governor McMaster and Constitutional Officers on WLTX-TV 2023 Swearing in of Governor McMaster and Constitutional Officers on South Carolina Educational Television 2023 Inaugural Ball - 98th South Carolina Inaugural on South Carolina Educational Television 2023 Inaugural Prayer Service on South Carolina Educational Television 2019 Swearing in of Governor McMaster and Constitutional Officers on South Carolina Educational Television 2017 Swearing in of Governor McMaster upon appointment of Governor Nikki Haley to the United Nations on South Carolina Educational Television |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1947 births 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American politicians American Presbyterians Republican Party governors of South Carolina Lawyers from Columbia, South Carolina Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina Living people Politicians from Columbia, South Carolina South Carolina Attorneys General South Carolina lawyers State political party chairs of South Carolina United States Attorneys for the District of South Carolina University of South Carolina School of Law alumni