Through the Ages

Garry South and his wife Emie Dahuya at a movie premiere in Hollywood in 2022 with California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, the first Filipino statewide officeholder in the state’s history.Garry South with Gov. Gavin Newsom (center) and former Gov. Gray Davis, the only two Democratic California Lieutenant Governors ever to be elected governor in their own right.Garry South with California State Controller Betty Yee, the first Asian American woman to hold the position.Garry South with California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, the first Asian American woman to be elected to the office (in 2018), and the first woman in 24 years.Garry South with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Los Angeles in November 2016, at a rally on behalf of Prop. 61, the California Drug Price Relief Act, for which South served as Lead Strategist.Caricature of Garry South by Roman Genn, illustrator for National Review magazine and many other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, 2012.Garry South with former Pres. Bill Clinton at a press conference in Los Angeles in October, 2009, where Clinton announced his endorsement of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for governor of California. South served as Senior Advisor in the first Newsom campaign for governor.Garry South with Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana, South’s home state, at the Governor’s January 2009 Inauguration to a second term in Helena.Garry South and Christine Wei-li Lee with Presidential candidate, Senator Joseph Lieberman, at an event in Los Angeles in 2003. South was Senior Advisor to Senator Lieberman's 2003-2004 Presidential Campaign.Gov. Gray Davis with Garry South and Christine Wei-li Lee at an event during Davis’s successful 2002 re-election campaign, which South directed.Garry South with former President Clinton, Gov. Gray Davis, California First Lady Sharon Davis, and Christine Wei-li Lee at a Los Angeles event for Davis’ 2002 re-election campaign, which South directed.Editorial cartoon of Gov. Gray Davis and Garry South by Roman Genn that appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 2002Gov. Gray Davis and Garry South walk away after an interview at the Fox News studio in Los Angeles during the 2002 re-election campaign.Garry South with First Lady Hillary Clinton at an event for her 2000 campaign for U.S. Senate in New York.Garry South and President Bill Clinton at the White House in 2000. South and Bill Clinton served as fellow state coordinators in the 1976 Carter campaign, with South managing the effort in his home state of Montana and Clinton coordinating the campaign in his home state of Arkansas.With Former President Bill Clinton at an event in September of 2000.Garry South and Vice President Al Gore share a laugh during Gore’s 2000 presidential run. South was a key advisor to the Gore campaign in California, a state he won 80-20 over former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley in the primary, and by a margin of 54-42 and 1.3 million votes over George W. Bush in the general election.At the 2000 Democratic National Convention at Staples Center, Los Angeles, with Governor Gray and Sharon Davis during Democratic Presidential nominee Al Gore’s acceptance speech.Garry South with the Chair of the California Democratic Party, former state Sen. Art Torres, at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los AngelesWith former President Jimmy Carter in 2000 at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.California Lt. Gov. Gray Davis introduces his Chief of Staff, Garry South, to Vice President Al Gore in the latter’s White House office in 1995.Attending the White House Holiday Party in December 1994 with newly elected California Lt. Gov. Gray Davis. They didn’t realize it was black tie.Ohio Gov. Richard F. Celeste and his Communications Director, Garry South, at a reception for Celeste’s staff at the Governor’s Mansion in Columbus in 1990.Garry South with two governors of Alabama — Gov. George C. Wallace, and then-Sec. of State, and future Governor, Don Siegelman — in 1984. South was a featured speaker at a national voter-registration forum in Birmingham sponsored by the National Association of Secretaries of State.In 1983-84, Garry South Served on the National Advisory Council of U.S. Senator John Glenn’s presidential campaign. Here he is with the Senator at a fundraising event South arranged for him in Las Vegas in 1983.In the Carter Administration, Garry South served from 1979-81 as Special Assistant to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, who nicknamed South “Montana Slim.” Here he talks with Bergland in the Secretary’s office in Washington, DC.Garry South and Chicago Mayor Michael A. Bilandic and his wife, Heather, in 1978. South managed the Democratic campaign against Republican U.S. Sen. Charles Percy in Illinois that year.Garry South, Midwest Regional Finance Director of the Democratic National Committee, greets President Carter at a fundraising gala South organized in 1977 in Williamsburg, VA.Garry South and Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Curtis (center), the former Governor of Maine, at an Indianapolis fundraising event in the summer of 1977 set up by South as Midwest Regional Finance Director of the DNC.Garry South with Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter in Plains, GA, in August of 1976, at the national staff retreat for campaign staff. South served as the youngest State Coordinator (having just turned 25) of the 50 states, managing the Carter/Mondale campaign in his home state of Montana.As Student Body President at the University of Montana, Garry South hosts a luncheon in 1973 for New York Gov. – and soon-to-be Vice President – Nelson A. Rockefeller. Rockefeller was on campus to deliver a Mike Mansfield Lecture Series address.