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Timothy Eugene "Tim" Scott (born September 19, 1965) is the junior United States Senator for South Carolina. A Republican, he was appointed as senator in 2013 after South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley named him to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint. Scott ran in a special election in 2014 for the final two years of DeMint's second term, and won the seat. In November 2010, Scott was elected to the United States House of Representatives for , and served from 2011 to 2013. The first Republican African American Congressman 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 (2009–2011); prior to that, he had been on the Charleston County Council from 1996 to 2008.〔〔 Scott is one of two African Americans serving in the United States Senate, the first African American senator from the state of South Carolina, the first black Republican elected to the United States Senate since the defeat of Edward Brooke in 1979, and the first elected from the South since 1881, four years after the end of Reconstruction.〔Bainum, Stefanie. (Tim Scott speaks out on becoming a US Senator ), ABC-TV News 4 Charleston, SC, January 3, 2013.〕 He is also the first African American to have been elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate.〔("Historic firsts in new Congress" ), Cnn.com, 5 November 2014〕 ==Early life, education, and business career== Scott was born in North Charleston, South Carolina to Ben Scott, Sr. and Frances Scott,〔 a nursing assistant. His parents were divorced when he was 7. He grew up in working-class poverty, as his mother worked 16-hour days to support her family, including Tim's older brother.〔 His brother is a sergeant major in the U.S. Army.〔 Scott also has a second brother who is an Air Force Colonel. Scott attended Presbyterian College from 1983 to 1984, on a partial football scholarship. He graduated from Charleston Southern University in 1988 with a B.S. in Political Science.〔〔 In addition to his political career, Scott owns an insurance agency, Tim Scott Allstate,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scott.senate.gov/about-me/biography )〕 and works as a financial adviser.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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