Casey Booker

Casey Graham Booker (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from the Midwest from 1994 to 2001. A Democrat, Booker also served as the 113th Governor of South Carolina from 1991 to 1994. Booker was the Democratic vice presidential nominee and the running mate of Hillary Rodham in the 1992 presidential election and the Democratic presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election.

During his first months in the Senate, Booker served as the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate. He lost the 1996 presidential election in a landslide defeat to incumbent president Harvey Jones.