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Timothy Eugene Scott (born September 19, 1965) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from South Carolina since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013. He retained his seat after winning a special election in 2014, and was elected to full terms in 2016 and 2022. Before his election to the Senate, Scott was elected to the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, serving from 2011 to 2013. Before that, he served one term in the South Carolina General Assembly from 2009 to 2011, and served on the Charleston County council from 1995 to 2009. Before entering politics, Scott worked in financial services. Scott is one of 11 African-Americans to have served in the U.S. Senate, and the first to have served in both chambers of Congress. He is the seventh African-American elected to the Senate and the fourth from the Republican Party. He is the first African-American senator from South Carolina, the first African-American senator to be elected from the Southern United States since 1881 (four years after the end of Reconstruction), and the first African-American Republican to serve in the Senate since Edward Brooke departed in 1979.On April 12, 2023, Scott formed an exploratory committee to enter the 2024 Republican Party presidential primary for president of the United States in the 2024 election. He filed Federal Election Commission paperwork to run for president on May 19, and formally declared his candidacy on May 22.