9 unknown facts about Tim Scott, 2024 US presidential candidate
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As a freshman at North Charleston’s R.B. Stall High School, he failed English, Spanish, geography, and civics.
He had buck teeth as a boy, which made other kids call Scott “Teet.”
His grandfather left school in the third grade to pick cotton for 50 cents a day. He couldn’t read or write but was an avid daily newspaper observer.
His father was a Kool-menthol-chain-smoking Vietnam vet in the Air Force.
Some 150 years after his enslaved ancestors were forced to come to South Carolina, he was born in North Charleston on Sept. 19, 1965.
Scott is one of only 11 Black people in the history of the country to be in the Senate and one of just three currently in the Senate.
Tim Scott is the only Black person to ever serve in both chambers of Congress.
Tim Scott is the only Black Republican in the United States Senate. He is the Senator of South Carolina.
9 unknown facts about Tim Scott, 2024 US presidential candidate | 9 unknown facts about Tim Scott, 2024 US presidential candidate