Marlon Kimpson

Kimpson won a special election to succeed Robert Ford in 2013^[3][4] representing the 42nd district in the South Carolina Senate. In 2023 he was actively working to pass a hate crime law in South Carolina.^[5]

In January 2020, Kimpson announced his support for the Joe Biden presidential campaign in the competition for the Democratic presidential nomination.^[6] Kimpson was selected as one of seventeen speakers to jointly deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.^[7]

On March 10, 2023, President Biden published his intent to appoint Kimpson and thirteen others to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, a committee established by the Office of the US Trade Representative, part of the Executive Office of the President.^[8] Kimpson announced that he would vacate his South Carolina Senate seat later in 2023 to take up the appointment.^[9][10]

Kimpson attended the 2024 Democratic National Convention as a Sixth Congressional District delegate.^[11]

• Marlon Kimpson Senate page at South Carolina Legislature

• Profile at Vote Smart
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Marlon Kimpson Attorney Bio at Motley Rice LLC

  Party political offices
  Preceded by Elizabeth Warren	Keynote Speaker of the Democratic National Convention 2020 Served alongside: Stacey Abrams, Raumesh Akbari, Colin Allred, Brendan Boyle, Yvanna Cancela, Kathleen Clyde, Nikki Fried, Robert Garcia, Malcolm Kenyatta, Conor Lamb, Mari Manoogian, Victoria Neave, Jonathan Nez, Sam Park, Denny Ruprecht, Randall Woodfin	Most recent

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