Elizabeth Colbert Busch
| Elizabeth Colbert Busch | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elizabeth Colbert December 10, 1954 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Residence | Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of South Carolina College of Charleston |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Legare (divorced) Claus Wyman Busch III |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | 10 siblings; including Stephen Colbert |
| Website | Official website |
Elizabeth Colbert Busch (born December 10, 1954) is the Director of Business Development at Clemson University’s Restoration Institute, and was the Democratic Party nominee for the 2013 special election for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, losing to Mark Sanford. She is the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.
On January 18, 2013, Colbert Busch announced her candidacy for the U.S. House as a member of the Democratic Party to fill the seat vacated by Tim Scott upon his appointment to the U.S. Senate. She lost the special election for a seat in the House of Representatives in South Carolina's 1st congressional district to former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford on May 7, 2013. She chose not to run again in 2014.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Colbert Busch is the eighth of eleven children of parents James William Colbert Jr., who served as the first Vice President of academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Lorna (née Tuck) Colbert, who was a homemaker. The Colbert family is of mostly Irish, with small amounts of English and German, descent. She briefly attended the University of South Carolina, but returned to Charleston after her father and two brothers Peter and Paul were among the 71 passengers who died on Eastern Air Lines Flight 212, in 1974. She then enrolled in the College of Charleston, receiving her B.A. in Intermodal Transportation and Logistics Management, and was named to the National Dean’s List in 1988.
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