He was appointed to the office in 2013 and won a special election the following year. He was reelected in 2016 and 2022. Scott is the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate from a Southern state since Reconstruction. He previously served in the U.S. House of ...
The nation’s second president was also its first one-termer. He became George Washington’s successor based on his laudable career as a lawyer and diplomat. But a series of controversies, including his support of the Alien and Sedition Acts—which many saw as a violation of First Amendment ...
Laura Bush, the wife of former President George W. Bush, was cited by the highest number of experts as someone who could have accomplished more during her stint in the White House. And Hillary Clinton, by a wide margin, was identified as the first lady who could most easily step into th...
neither literally nor figuratively. Donald Trump engineered her ouster and installed his handpicked replacements, including his daughter-in-law and Michael Whatley, a right-wing attorney who was part of the Bush recount team during the contested 2000 presidential...
“Nikki is persona non grata at this point,” Justin Evans, Trump’s director of special projects in South Carolina, told CNN. “Nikki represents the brand of Republicanism that Trump stands against; everything the George Bush-Karl Rove wing of the party is embodied in Nikki Haley and rep...