Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley (R) after former Sen. Jim DeMint (R) resigned. At the time, he was the first Black Republican senator since 1978 and the first ...

The last black senator before that was also appointed ... His mother worked for minimum wage and his father died when he was 16, the Boston Globe reported. Cowan graduated from Duke University ...

The former state senator convicted of fraud and now seeking ... say prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston. Dean Tran, a Massachusetts Republican who ran for Congress, last ...

This historic moment will be shared alongside four other African-American senators, making this the largest group of Black senators to ever serve concurrently in the U.S. Capitol, a building ...