During the 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia, his campaign refused to say whether Warnock attended the event. There is no evidence Warnock was involved in that decision.
The church also hosted Fidel Castro on October 22, 1995, while Warnock was youth pastor. While Warnock was pastor at Abyssinian, the church declined to hire workfare recipients as part of organized opposition to then-mayor Rudy Giuliani's workfare program. In the 1990s, he served as youth pastor and then assistant pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York. Warnock began his ministry as an intern and licentiate at the Sixth Avenue Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, under the civil rights movement leader John Thomas Porter. Warnock later officiated Lewis's funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Warnock with John Lewis at a "Souls to the Polls" event. He then earned Master of Divinity, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Union Theological Seminary, a school affiliated with Columbia University. He credits his participation in the Upward Bound program for making him college-ready, as he was able to enroll in early college courses through Savannah State University. Johnson High School in 1987, and having wanted to follow in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr., attended Morehouse College, from which he graduated cum laude in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology.
His mother picked cotton and tobacco in the summers in Waycross, Georgia, as a teenager and became a pastor. Army during World War II, where he learned automobile mechanics and welding, and subsequently opened a small car restoration business where he restored junked cars for resale.
He grew up in public housing as the eleventh of twelve children born to Verlene and Jonathan Warnock, both Pentecostal pastors. Warnock was born in Savannah, Georgia, on July 23, 1969.
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He was reelected to a full term in 2022, defeating Republican nominee Herschel Walker. Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the Senate, and the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate in a Southern state. Senate from Georgia since Zell Miller in 2000. Warnock and Ossoff are the first Democrats elected to the U.S. With Warnock's win and Jon Ossoff's victory in the concurrent regularly scheduled election, the Democratic Party won control of the Senate for the first time since 2014. No candidate received a majority of the vote on election day, so Warnock faced Loeffler again in a January 5, 2021, runoff election, which he won by more than 93,000 votes. On January 30, 2020, Warnock announced his candidacy in Georgia's 2020 United States Senate special election, seeking to unseat incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler. Warnock came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leading activist in the campaign to expand Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act.
He was the senior pastor of Douglas Memorial Community Church until 2005. Since 2005, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed office on January 20, 2021. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock ( / ˈ r ɑː f i ɛ l ˈ w ɔː r n ɒ k/ RAH-fee-el WOR-nok born July 23, 1969) is an American Baptist pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021.
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