Nancy Stevenson

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Nancy Stevenson |image = |order = 83rd |office = Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina |governor = Richard Riley |term_start = January 10, 1979 |term_end = January 12, 1983 |predecessor = W. Brantley Harvey Jr. |successor = Michael R. Daniel |state_house2= South Carolina |district2 = 110th |term_start2 = December 1974 |term_end2 = December 1978 |predecessor2 = None (district created) |successor2 = Paul Cantrell |birth_name = Ferdinan Legare Backer |birth_date = {{birth date|1928|06|08}} |birth_place = {{nowrap|New Rochelle, New York, U.S.}} |death_date = {{death date and age|2001|05|31|1928|06|08}} |death_place = Floyd County, Virginia, U.S. |party = Democratic |spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Olav Ivar Leiv Moltke-Hansen|1950||reason=divorced}}|{{marriage|Norman Williams Stevenson|1956|1999|reason=died}}}} |education = Smith College (BA) }} '''Ferdinan Backer''' "'''Nancy'''" '''Stevenson''' (June 8, 1928 – May 31, 2001) was an American politician who served as the 83rd lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 1979 to 1983. She was the first and only woman to be elected to statewide office in South Carolina until the election of Dr. Barbara S. Nielsen as Superintendent of Education in 1990. She previously served two terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and, after leaving office, unsuccessfully ran for the state's 2nd congressional district seat in 1984 against incumbent Floyd Spence.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/stevenson-ferdinan-backer/|title=Stevenson, Ferdinan Backer - South Carolina Encyclopedia|work=South Carolina Encyclopedia|access-date=2018-02-25|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenvilleonline/obituary.aspx?n=nancy-stevenson&pid=140809663|title=Nancy Stevenson's Obituary on The Greenville News|website=The Greenville News|access-date=2018-02-25}}</ref>

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