New Senators Warnock, Padilla, Ossoff Add Diversity to Chamber

A trio of senators being sworn in Wednesday bring a little more diversity to a chamber that’s long been dominated by older white men.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is the first Black senator from Georgia and one of only three Black senators in the 117th Congress. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) is the first Jewish senator from Georgia and, at 33, the chamber’s youngest member and its first member to be born in the 1980s. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who was appointed to the Senate seat formerly held by Vice President Kamala Harris, became the first Hispanic senator from the nation’s most populous ...