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Raphael G. Warnock

U.S. Senate · GA · Democrats · since 2023

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Biography

Overview

Raphael Warnock is a Democrat and Baptist pastor serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. He was born July 23, 1969, in Savannah, Georgia, and has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005. Warnock defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler in a 2020 special election runoff with 51.04% of the vote and was reelected to a full term in 2022, defeating Herschel Walker with 51.4%. He is the first African American to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate.

Career

Warnock has authored legislation on healthcare costs, including a provision capping insulin costs at $35 monthly for Medicare beneficiaries in the Inflation Reduction Act. He introduced the Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act to aid historically disadvantaged minority farmers and worked with colleagues to secure federal funding for rural health centers and veteran services. He led efforts to support Georgia's Port of Savannah and Northeast Georgia Inland Port and worked on maternal health legislation with Republican Marco Rubio. He successfully introduced resolutions honoring John Lewis and Johnny Isakson that passed with bipartisan support.

Prior political experience

Warnock won a 2020 special election runoff against Republican Kelly Loeffler on January 5, 2021, with 51.04% of the vote. He was reelected to a full six-year term on December 6, 2022, in a runoff against Republican Herschel Walker with 51.4% to 48.6%, making him the first Georgia Democrat to win reelection to the Senate since Sam Nunn in 1990 and the first Deep South Democrat to win reelection since Mary Landrieu of Louisiana in 2008. His victories were significant in giving Democrats a 50-50 Senate majority in 2021 with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker.

Biographical material adapted from the Wikipedia article (retrieved April 29, 2026), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ideology

Liberal–Conservative (DW-NOMINATE dim 1)

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119th Congress-0.431

Secondary axis (DW-NOMINATE dim 2)(?)

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+0.423
Source: Voteview DW-NOMINATE · 657 scored votes

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Officeholding history

TermSeatTerm datesTerminationPredecessorSuccessor
2ndU.S. Senate GA Class 32023–presentIn progressRaphael G. Warnock—
1stU.S. Senate GA Class 32021–2023Term ended—Raphael G. Warnock

Committee assignments

Current term legislation

Bills sponsored this term10

Bills cosponsored this term10

Elections

YearSeatResultVote shareField
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