Alvin Greene

Alvin Michael Greene (born August 30, 1977 in Florence, South Carolina) is the Democratic nominee in the 2010 United States Senate election in South Carolina. If elected he would be the first African-American in the Southern United States to win a seat in U.S. Senate since Reconstruction[1] when Republican senators Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche Bruce represented Mississippi in the 1870s. He would also be the first popularly elected African-American Senator from the South. He faces incumbent Republican Senator Jim DeMint in the general election.

Greene won the Democratic primary race against establishment candidate Vic Rawl[2] in June of 2010 with 59% of votes cast despite very limited campaigning and campaign spending, no website, and no yard signs.[3]

Greene served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force before receiving an involuntary honorable discharge. He is currently unemployed and lives with his father[4] in Manning, roughly halfway between Columbia and Charleston