Raphael Warnock

Raphael Gamaliel Warnock (born July 23, 1969) is an American pastor and politician. He is the Junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2021.

He has been the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2005, the same church Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor for. 

Warnock ran in the 2020 Senate special election in Georgia against Senator Kelly Loeffler. In November 2020, Loeffler and Warnock advanced to the January 5, 2021 run-off election where he would go on to beat Loeffler. (11:05 am EST [see tweet https://twitter.com/AP/status/1346714442915000320]) He later defeated former football player Herschel Walker in the 2022 runoff election.

Warnock was born in Savannah, Georgia.

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