South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has appointed South Carolina Congressman Tim Scott to replace Senator Jim DeMint, who is resigning from the U.S. Senate to head the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. Jim DeMint was first elected U.S. Senator of South Carolina in 2004 to replace the retired Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, who had previously been U.S. Senator from South Carolina since 1967.
Tim Scott is a black Congressman from South Carolina who was first elected to the House in 2010, the year the Republicans recaptured the House from the Democrats. He won an open seat in 2010 after beating the son of former segregationist and Senator Strom Thurmond that year. Scott has close relationships with the governor and DeMint and the Republican Party establishment. He will become the seventh black to serve in the Senate and the first black from the South since the 1800's. Scott will face a special election in 2014 to retain the Senate seat and in 2016 the seat will be up for a full six-year term. Scott expects to assume his new office on January 3, 2013.
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