Timothy Eugene "Tim" Scott is the junior United States Senator for South Carolina. A Republican, he became a senator in 2013 after South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley named him to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint. Scott is running in a special election in 2014 for the final two years of DeMint's second term. In November 2010, Scott was elected to the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, and served from 2011 to 2013. The first Republican African-American Representative from South Carolina since 1897, Scott, a fiscal and cultural conservative, was endorsed by Tea Party groups. He served one term in the South Carolina General Assembly; prior to that, he had been on the Charleston County Council from 1996 to 2008. Scott is one of only two African-American members currently serving in the United States Senate, the first African-American senator from the state of South Carolina, and the first from the South since 1881. 

September 19th, 1965 in Charleston (Age 59)