Tim Scott has an older brother called Ben Scott Jr. He is a sergeant major in the US Army. There isn’t much information about him on the internet yet.
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Tim Scott is serving as the junior United States senator from South Carolina since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Scott was appointed to the US Senate by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013.
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Scott is one of 11 African-Americans to have served in the US Senate, and the first to have served in both chambers of Congress. He is the 1st African-American senator from South Carolina, the first African-American senator to be elected from the Southern United States since 1881.
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In late 2022, it was reported that several US senators such as John Barrasso, John Cornyn, and Joni Ernst, had encouraged Scott to run for president of the United States in the 2024 elections. In April 2023, Scott formed an exploratory committee to potentially run for president. Scott filed with the Federal Election Commission on May 19, to run for president.
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