Nancy Stevenson

Nancy Stevenson
Nancy Stevenson
83rd Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
	In office; January 10, 1979 – January 12, 1983
Governor	Richard Riley
Preceded by	W. Brantley Harvey Jr.
Succeeded by	Michael R. Daniel
Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives; from the 110th district
	In office; December 1974 – December 1978
Preceded by	None (district created)
Succeeded by	Paul Cantrell
Personal details
Born	Ferdinan Legare Backer; June 8, 1928; New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Died	May 31, 2001 (aged 72); Floyd County, Virginia, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Olav Ivar Leiv Moltke-Hansen; Norman Williams Stevenson
Education	Smith College (B.A.)

Ferdinan Backer "Nancy" Stevenson (June 8, 1928 – May 31, 2001) was an American politician who served as 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 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.^[1]^[2]