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Who was the first African-American senator to be elected from the Southern United States since 1881?

  • Edward Brooke

  • Hiram Rhodes Revels

  • Blanche Bruce

  • Tim Scott

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Tim Scott is the first African-American senator to be elected from the Southern United States since 1881, which was four years after the end of Reconstruction. He is also the first African-American Republican to serve in the Senate since Edward Brooke departed in 1979.
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