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South Carolina ratified the United States Constitution on May 23, 1788. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in July 1861 owing to its secession from the Union. They were again filled from July 1868. The state's current U.S. senators are Republicans Lindsey Graham, serving since 2003, and Tim Scott, serving since 2013.
List of current United States senators. 18 languages. Dansk; ... South Carolina House of Representatives: University of South Carolina (BA, JD) January 3, 2003 2026
In the general election, he defeated Democratic nominee Alex Sanders, the former president of the College of Charleston and former chief judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, 600,010 votes (54%) to 487,359 (44%). [51] Graham thus became South Carolina's first new U.S. senator since Fritz Hollings in 1966. [52]
These are tables of congressional delegations from South Carolina to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The current dean of the South Carolina delegation is Representative Jim Clyburn (SC-6) , having served in the House since 1993.
On December 17, 2012, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley announced she would appoint Scott to replace retiring Senator Jim DeMint, who had previously announced that he would retire from the Senate to become the President of The Heritage Foundation. [63] Scott is the first African American U.S. senator from South Carolina.
In 2024, Zell defeated Leon Winn in the Republican primary to face incumbent Democratic senator Kevin L. Johnson in the South Carolina Senate District 36 race. [2] [3]Zell defeated Johnson in the general election.
A diagram of the Senate Chamber, 1917. The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the same time as United States presidential elections.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of South Carolina. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from South Carolina.