Tim Scott

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Timothy Eugene Scott( born September 19, 1965) is an American politician and businessman. He has served as the inferior United States assemblyman for South Carolina since 2013. A Republican, Scott was appointed to theU. S. Senate by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013. He retained his seat after winning a special election in 2014 and was tagged to a full term in 2016. In 2010, Scott was tagged to the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina's 1st congressional quarter, 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 1995 to 2009. Scott is one of eleven African- Americans to have served in theU. S. Senate, and the first to serve in both chambers ofCongress. He's the seventh African- American to have been tagged to the Senate and the fourth from the Republican Party. He's the first African- American assemblyman from South Carolina, the first African- American assemblyman to be tagged from the Southern United States since 1881( four times after the end of Reconstruction), and the first African- American Republican to serve in theU. S. Senate since Edward Brooke departed in 1979.
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