Harold Watson “Trey” Gowdy III, is an American television news personality, former politician, and former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2019.

His district included much of the Upstate region of South Carolina, including Greenville and Spartanburg.

Before his congressional career, Gowdy served as a federal prosecutor in the District of South Carolina from 1994 to 2000 and then as the solicitor (district attorney) for South Carolina’s Seventh Judicial Circuit, comprising Spartanburg and Cherokee counties from 2000 to 2010.

From 2014 to 2016, Gowdy chaired the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi which was partly responsible for discovering the existence of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Are Trey Gowdy And Curt Gowdy Related?

Trey Gowdy is not related to Curt Gowdy, despite the fact that they share the same family name. Curt was a well-known American sportscaster who called Boston Red Sox games on radio and television for fifteen years.