the 4th district by the largest margin in the state. She won a third term with a greater margin in 1990 over Terry Haskins, a state Representative from Greenville. That year Campbell, as the Republican incumbent, won reelection as governor in a landslide. Although Patterson represented a district that had been trending Republican for some time, she was thought to be a fairly secure incumbent, given her family ties and her victory in three successive elections under difficult conditions. She was narrowly defeated for re-election in 1992 by Republican Bob Inglis, an attorney who had never run for office before. As in 1988, George H. W. Bush carried the 4th with his largest margin in the state. After Patterson left office in 1993, no woman would serve in Congress from South Carolina until 2021, when Nancy Mace took office following her defeat of Joe Cunningham in 2020, and Democrats have only tallied more than 40 percent in the 4th district once since 1992. Patterson was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1994. She taught political science at Spartanburg Methodist College, as well as being on the board of trustees, and was the chairwoman of the Spartanburg County Democratic Party. Paterson died on November 10, 2018, just eight days shy of her 79th birthday. See also Women in the United States House of Representatives References External links Elizabeth "Liz" Patterson Papers at South Carolina Political Collections, University of South Carolina South Carolina Legislative Manual. |- |- 1939 births 2018 deaths County council members in South Carolina Democratic Party South Carolina state senators Female members of the United States House of Representatives Women state legislators in South Carolina Peace Corps people University of South Carolina alumni Columbia College (South Carolina) alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina 21st-century American women Women in the South Carolina State Senate