Mount Pleasant Magazine 6.3

hip Limehouse is about to

step out of the political arena for the

first time since his childhood days

in Mount Pleasant, leaving behind

a legacy of successful Lowcountry

transportation projects and of lead-

ing the charge to make the Republi-

can Party a dominant force in the Palmetto State.

After representing District 110 at the State House for

22 years, Harry B. “Chip” Limehouse III, who said he

“was born into politics,” has opted to retire from the busi-

ness of government – at least temporarily. He’ll remain in

office until the end of this year.

Limehouse grew up in Mount Pleasant’s Creekside

neighborhood and attended Whitesides Elementary School

and Moultrie Middle School, all the while being groomed

for a career in politics. His father, Harry B. “Buck” Lime-

house Jr., directed political campaigns in Florida and Ohio

in the 1960s, and Chip was given a larger-than-life Civics

lesson when he spent a semester of his high school years as

As a youngster,

Chip Limehouse

and his friends

used to jump off

this bridge into

Shem Creek.