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Tim Scott becomes longest-serving Black Senator in U.S. history

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Tim Scott becomes longest-serving Black Senator in U.S. history.

Scott is the first elected Black senator from the South .

Scott will be joined by four other African-American senators, making this the largest group of Black senators to ever serve concurrently in the Senate .

Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 after former Senator Jim DeMint left to become president of the Heritage Foundation .

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