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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 ...
Because of the state population growth in the 2010 census, South Carolina regained its 7th district, which had remained unused since the Civil War. On January 6, 2023, a three-judge panel from the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina ruled that the current 1st district lines were unconstitutional due to racial gerrymandering ...
Raised by a single mother, Scott, 57, talks often of how Frances Scott worked long hours as a nurse's assistant to provide for her two sons. At age 18, Scott became what he terms a “born-again ...
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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 ...
Resigned to become US District Court judge. Joseph Brevard: Democratic-Republican: 9th: March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821 Elected in 1818. Retired. Preston Brooks: Democratic: 4th: March 4, 1853 – July 15, 1856 Elected in 1853. Resigned to gain constituents' support for Caning of Charles Sumner. August 1, 1856 – January 28, 1857 Re-elected to ...
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