What is Tim Scott?
{{Infobox Senator | name = Tim Scott | image = Tim Scott official portrait.jpg | imagesize = | jr/sr = Junior Senator <!-- will not display, but needs to be here for now: see [[Template talk: Infobox Officeholder]] --> | state = [[South Carolina]] | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | term_start = January 3, 2013 | term_end = | alongside = [[Lindsey Graham]] | preceded = [[Jim DeMint]] | succeeded = | office2 = Member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br /> from [[South Carolina]]'s 1th district | term_start2 = January 3, 2011 | term_end2 = January 2, 2013 | predecessor2 = [[Henry Brown]] | successor2 = [[Mark Sanford]] | office3 = Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives <br /> from the 117th district | term_start3 = January 3, 2009 | term_end3 = January 3, 2011 | predecessor3 = [[Tom Dantzler]] | successor3 = [[Bill Crosby]] | order4 = Member of the [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] County Council <br /> from the 3rd district | term_start4 = February 8, 1995 | term_end4 = January 3, 2009 | preceded4 = [[R. Keith Summey]] | succeeded4 = [[Elliott Summey]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1965|9|19}} | birth_place = [[North Charleston, South Carolina]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Politician | residence = | spouse = {{marriage|Mindy Noce|2024}} | children = | alma_mater = [[Presbyterian College]]<br />[[Charleston Southern University]] | religion = | website = {{URL|http://www.scott.senate.gov/}} }} '''Timothy Eugene Scott''' (born September 19, 1965) is an [[Americans|American]] politician. On January 3, 2013, he became the junior [[U.S. Senator]] from [[South Carolina]]. He was in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from 2009 to 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scott, Tim|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001184|publisher=Office of Art and Archives and Office of the Historian, The United States Congress|access-date=July 1, 2015}}</ref> He is the only African-American senator as of the [[115th United States C