Tim Scott was already serving in the U.S. Senate by appointment. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley selected him to replace retiring Sen. Jim DeMint. With his victory last month, Scott became the first black elected to the Senate from a former Confederate state since reconstruction.
With the Republican Party’s sweeping victories in last month’s midterm elections, it has a deep bench of rising stars to draw upon for future senatorial, gubernatorial and presidential races. Here are seven of those rising stars:
1. Tim Scott was already serving in the U.S. Senate by appointment. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley selected him to replace retiring Sen. Jim DeMint. With his victory last month, Scott became the first black elected to the Senate from a former Confederate state since reconstruction.
(Many blacks were elected to Congress after the Civil War, but after Union troops left the South during the Rutherford B. Hayes presidency, Southern states implemented “Jim Crow” policies that made it difficult for blacks to vote.)
During his swearing-in ceremony, Scott said that he hopes his personal life story, raised in poverty by a single mother, will help inspire children struggling in similarly difficult circumstances.
“I think when you’re able to start at the bottom and work your way up, it’s hopefully a sign or a signal to so many other young kids growing up in difficult circumstances that all things are possible,” he said.
When Scott and Corey Booker, D-N.J., enter the Senate next month, it will be the first time in history that two elected black senators will serve at the same time.
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