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Ossoff was born on February 16, 1987, in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] He was raised in Northlake, an unincorporated community. [2] Ossoff's mother, Heather Fenton, is an Australian immigrant who was born and raised in Sydney [3] and immigrated to the United States at the age of 23. [4]
Ossoff is the first Jewish senator from Georgia and Warnock the first black senator from Georgia. [2] Georgia is one of fifteen states alongside California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator.
A Republican, Brooke was the first black senator to serve two terms in the Senate, holding office until 1979. [5] From 1979 to 1993, there were no black members of the United States Senate. Between 1993 and 2010, three black members of the Illinois Democratic Party would hold Illinois's Class 3 Senate seat at different times.
Gloria Singleton Butler (born December 25, 1941) is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, Butler has been a member of the Georgia State Senate since 1999. [1] [2] She represents the 55th district, which encompasses parts of DeKalb County and Gwinnett County. [3]
Joshua Ivan McLaurin (born January 17, 1988) is a member of the Georgia State Senate in the state of Georgia. McLaurin represents the 14th district in the state Senate, a seat once held by 39th president of the United States Jimmy Carter. Before his election to the state Senate, McLaurin served two terms in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Michael Blake Tillery (born October 9, 1983) is an American politician who has served in the Georgia State Senate from the 19th district since 2017. [1] [2]In January 2024, Tillery co-sponsored S.B. 390, which would withhold government funding for any libraries in Georgia affiliated with the American Library Association.
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He was the first black state senator to be elected to the legislature in more than fifty years, since William H. Rogers in 1907, and the first to be elected to the Senate since 1874. He served District 38 in Fulton County and Atlanta, a predominantly black senate district created after the elimination of the county-unit system that same year.