On January 6, 2020, Jon Ossoff was declared the winner of his Georgia Senatorial runoff, defeating Republican David Perdue. This makes Ossoff the youngest member of his Senatorial class (at 33, he is two years too young to be eligible to run for President of the United States). He is also the first Jewish person ever elected to the Senate from Georgia and the first Jewish Senator elected from the Deep South since Richard Stone of Florida lost his bid for renomination in 1980; before that, the next-most-recent Jewish Senator from a Deep South state had been Benjamin Jonas of Louisiana, who left office in 1885. Ossoff was elected alongside Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is the first Black person elected to the Senate from Georgia.
