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In the following off-year election of 2010, Republican Tim Scott won the seat with 65 percent of the vote. During the 2018 South Carolina primaries on June 12, 2018, Mark Sanford lost re-nomination to the seat. The Republicans would go on to lose the seat to the Democrats after the district swung heavily to the Democrats in the 2018 midterm ...
Tim Scott was born on September 19, 1965, in North Charleston, South Carolina, to Frances, a nursing assistant, and Ben Scott Sr. When Scott was seven years old, his parents divorced, leaving him and his older brother, who later became a sergeant major in the U.S. Army , to grow up in working-class poverty with their mother, who often worked ...
On May 23, 2024, the Supreme Court—in a 6–3 decision—ruled the 1st district lines were constitutional, reversing the District of South Carolina's original ruling and officially allowing the current congressional map to be used for and past the 2024 elections.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the incoming chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, details his 2026 election game plan in a Fox News Digital interview
In 2010, Tim Scott beat the son of Senator Strom Thurmond, the racist Dixiecrat-turned-Republican who famously filibustered the Civil Rights Act, in the GOP primary for South Carolina’s 1st ...
Elected to finish Scott's term. Lost renomination to Katie Arrington. Robert B. Scarborough: Democratic: 6th: March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1905 Elected in 1900. Retired. Tim Scott: Republican: 1st: January 3, 2011 – January 2, 2013 Elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012 but resigned when appointed U.S. Senator. George W. Shell: Democratic: 4th
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Scott to the Senate in 2012 making him the first Black senator from the South since just after the Civil War, according to the Associated Press.
The current dean of the South Carolina delegation is Representative Jim Clyburn ... District map 1st: Nancy Mace ... Tim Scott (R) 113th (2013–2015)