Mark Sanford

Video: Sanford admits affair

On June 24, 2009, then-SC Gov. Mark Sanford took to the microphone at a news conference at the State House to announce he had carried on an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina.

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Read emails between Mark Sanford and future fiancee

E-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December 2008, between then-Gov. Mark Sanford and Maria Chapur, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who later became his fiancee.
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Mark Sanford: Legacy

The dominant images now of Mark Sanford’s eight years in office are of the Appalachian Trail and Argentina. But Sanford thinks his lasting legacy is yet to play itself out.
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Mark Sanford: What's next

Outgoing Gov. Mark Sanford said he had done little planning for the next chapter of his life, after the Governor’s Mansion, saying he works better if he focuses on the task at hand, which — for the next month — is finishing his second term.
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Mark Sanford: Nikki Haley

No one has been more closely linked to Gov.-elect Nikki Haley than the man she will follow into office as South Carolina’s governor.
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Mark Sanford: The legislature

Republican Gov. Mark Sanford and the GOP-controlled General Assembly had a contentious two-term relationship, though many legislators professed to agree with Sanford’s policies.
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Mark Sanford: Report Card

When Gov. Mark Sanford was elected eight years ago his broad vision for changing South Carolina touched on a need to change the way the state created jobs, taxed its citizens, governed itself, and reform spending and education.
GOV. HALEY WATCH

Candidates urged to keep Gov's budget blueprint

Gov. Mark Sanford objected Wednesday to a campaign proposal to scrap the detailed executive budgets that Sanford introduced when he took office in 2003.
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Private lives, public obsession?

Gov. Mark Sanford wishes it weren't so, but American fascination with the private lives of public figures is as old as the nation. What has changed is that, with camera phones, the Internet, cable TV, Facebook and Twitter, Americans don't have to read between the lines of some purloined letter to...
SC POLITICS TODAY

Jenny Sanford on Gov: 'I just saw him as lost'

COLUMBIA -- South Carolina's ongoing soap opera starring the state's governor and his former wife continued Thursday with Jenny Sanford's appearance on the Dr. Phil television show.
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Sanford, female guest spent weekend in Keys

Gov. Mark Sanford and a female guest spent the weekend in the Florida Keys at a luxury hotel that is a getaway destination with a long list of famous visitors, including celebrities and U.S. presidents.