David Muldrow Beasley is an American politician, law professor, and the former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme. A member of the Republican Party, he served one term as th
Beasley in 2020
Beasley supported moving the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome to a pole on the lawn (as seen in the image).
Beasley at the Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
The 1998 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1998 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Jim Hodges, the Democratic nominee, handily defeated Republican gover
David Beasley
…that he had reversed his decision and believed the flag should be relocated to a monument elsewhere on the grounds. He lost bid for re-election in the 1998 gubernatorial election. The flag was removed from the capitol dome in 2000 after Beasley left office. It was displayed on a pole in front of the statehouse until it was removed…