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The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the same time as United States presidential elections .
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of South Carolina. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from South Carolina.
The South Carolina General Assembly, also called the South Carolina Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The legislature is bicameral and consists of the lower South Carolina House of Representatives and the upper South Carolina Senate. All together, the General Assembly consists of 170 members.
South Carolina ratified the United States Constitution on May 23, 1788. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in July 1861 owing to its secession from the Union. They were again filled from July 1868. The state's current U.S. senators are Republicans Lindsey Graham, serving since 2003, and Tim Scott, serving since 2013.
November 2008: Senate: 119 119th South Carolina General Assembly 2011 2010 120 ... List of speakers of the South Carolina House of Representatives;
These are tables of congressional delegations from South Carolina to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The current dean of the South Carolina delegation is Representative Jim Clyburn (SC-6) , having served in the House since 1993.
On February 14, 2024, Grant launched his bid for the House District 79 Seat. [2] He announced after the news that incumbent Ivory Torrey Thigpen was running for the South Carolina Senate seat held by incumbent Mia McLeod, who had left the Democratic Party to become an Independent.
Elliott was elected to the 22nd District of South Carolina House of Representatives in 2016. He served on the Education and Public Works Committee, where he chaired the Motor Vehicle Subcommittee. Elliott is the first openly gay man to be elected to the South Carolina General Assembly. [6]