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Ex-S.C. Gov. Sanford sworn in to House

...national spotlight when, as governor, he disappeared for five days in 2009, telling his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. The father of four later admitted in a tearful news conference he'd been in Argentina with Chapur. He called...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-15/ex-sc-gov-sanford-sworn-house
Sanford's statement

...Clinton years? ? his bizarre disappearance from the state while governor, and his having lied about being on the Appalachian Trail when he was really stealing away to his mistress in Argentina, was an infidelity against the people of South Carolina...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-05-10/sanfords-statement
Mark Sanford wins S.C. 1st Congressional District seat

...political career disintegrate four years ago when he disappeared for five days, telling his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. He returned to admit he had been in Argentina with his mistress - a woman to whom he is now engaged. Sanford later...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-05-07/mark-sanford-wins-sc-1st
Voters put Sanford back in US House

...political career disintegrate four years ago when he disappeared for five days, telling his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. He returned to admit he had been in Argentina with his mistress ? a woman to whom he is now engaged. Sanford later...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-05-07/voters-put-sanford-back-us-house
Sanford, Colbert Busch campaign on last day before election

...disappearing for five days in 2009, when he was a married, two-term governor. He told his staff he was hiking the Appalachian trail when he was in Argentina seeing his mistress, a woman to whom he has since become engaged.Sanford ended up paying...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-06/sanford-colbert-busch-campaig
A week before election, Sanford subject of attacks

...uncovered during his term as governor when he visited his then-mistress in Argentina under the guise of hiking the Appalachian Trail. Sanford seldom found himself on the defensive this spring, instead focusing on a message of redemption and seeking...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-04-30/week-election-sanford-subject-attac
Sanford loses support of national Republican group

...responsibility.Sanford famously left the state for five days in 2009, with staffers telling the media he was out hiking the Appalachian Trail. Instead, he was in Argentina, visiting the mistress to whom he is now engaged.Sanford tearfully admitted the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-17/sanford-loses-support-nationa
Where do you draw the line?

...was just as pronounced. He just flat disappeared at one point, leaving behind a fantastic fib about walking the Appalachian Trail ? when, in truth, he'd gone south to see his mistress. He left behind no one in clear charge of the state...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-04-09/where-do-you-draw-lin
Sanford advances to GOP runoff in House race

...2009 scandal in which he acknowledged an affair. After disappearing and telling his staff he was out hiking the Appalachian Trail, he returned to the state to reveal that he was in Argentina with a woman he later became engaged to after divorcing...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-03-19/sanford-advances-gop-runoff-house-r
Ex-S.C. Gov. Sanford wins runoff

...political star before he vanished from South Carolina for five days in 2009. Reporters were told he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but the then-married governor later tearfully acknowledged he was visiting Maria Belen Chapur, which he told everyone...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-04-02/ex-sc-gov-sanford-wins-runoff