Tim Scott

Senator Tim Scott has served South Carolina in the United States Senate since 2013 (112th Congress-Present). Before his tenure in the Senate, he served one term representing South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives (2011-2013, 112th Congress). Scott’s committee service in the Senate includes the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (ranking member); the Finance Committee; the Committee on Foreign Relations; the Committee Small Business and Entrepreneurship; and the Senate Special Committee on Aging. In July 2018, Scott and Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris introduced a bipartisan bill to make lynching a federal hate crime. Scott served both in the South Carolina General Assembly and on the Charleston County Council before his election to Congress. He graduated from Charleston Southern University with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.