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Ossoff is the first Jewish senator from Georgia and Warnock the first black senator from Georgia. [2] Georgia is one of sixteen states alongside Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, South Dakota and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior ...
The 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the U.S. Senate to represent the state of Georgia.Incumbent Democratic senator Raphael Warnock won his first full term in office, defeating Republican former football player Herschel Walker.
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. ... Georgia: Jon Ossoff: Democratic February 16, 1987 (age 37)
Raphael Warnock is the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, having broken the color barrier for one of the original 13 states with a special election victory in January 2021, almost 245 years ...
Georgia became a U.S. state in 1788, which allowed it to send congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms.
In October 2022, a bill by Warnock and Senator Jon Ossoff was enacted into law, naming a United States Post Office building in Atlanta, Georgia after John Lewis, who was a U.S. representative for Atlanta until his death in 2020.
The list includes Georgia’s two former Republican US senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, ... In 2022, Mr Perdue was enlisted and endorsed by Mr Trump to run for governor of the state ...
Ossoff and fellow Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock meet with the President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at Emory University on March 19, 2021. On January 20, 2021, Ossoff was sworn into the United States Senate in the 117th Congress by Vice President Kamala Harris, and would support all of President Joe Biden's cabinet nominees.