Former SC first lady endorses Bush

Former S.C. first lady Iris Campbell is endorsing Republican Jeb Bush for president, further cementing a long-standing relationship between the two families.

The Bush campaign said Friday the wife of late S.C. Gov. Carroll Campbell would be backing the former Florida governor, as she and her husband did for his father and brother.

The late governor, a conservative icon in the Palmetto State, helped elect both former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush to the presidency, serving as campaign co-chairman for each when they sought the White House.

Campbell also headed up Washington, D.C.,-based efforts to elect Jeb Bush as Florida governor in 1998. Carroll Campbell died in 2005 after battling Alzheimer’s.