Episode 1458
Tim Scott
Fri, 2021-Apr-30 02:02 UTC
Length - 2:23
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With 203,283 views on Thursday, 29 April 2021 our article of the day is Tim Scott.
Timothy Eugene Scott (born September 19, 1965) is an American politician and businessman serving as the junior United States Senator for South Carolina since 2013. A Republican, Scott was appointed to the U. S. Senate by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013. He retained his seat after winning a special election in 2014 and was elected to a full term in 2016.
In 2010, Scott was elected to the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, where he served from 2011 to 2013. Scott served one term (from 2009 to 2011) in the South Carolina General Assembly and served on the Charleston County council from 1996 to 2008. Since January 2017, Scott has been one of eleven African-Americans to have served in the U. S. Senate, and the first to serve in both chambers of Congress. He is the seventh African-American to have been elected to the Senate and the fourth from the Republican Party. He is the first African-American senator from South Carolina, the first African-American senator to be elected from the southern United States since 1881 (four years after the end of the Reconstruction era), and the first African-American Republican to serve in the U. S. Senate since Edward Brooke departed in 1979.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:02 UTC on Friday, 30 April 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Tim Scott on Wikipedia.
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