One of the most prominent defenders of the Trump agenda during the president’s second term has been Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.
A relative unknown on the national stage prior to being tapped for the post, Bessent, 62, has quickly become one of the president’s most effective communicators. A recent poll found him to be the most popular Cabinet member in the second Trump administration.
Bessent was born in Conway, South Carolina, to a real estate investor father and into a family that descended from the French Huguenots. Bessent’s pathway to success would take him for a time north although in time he would return to his native Palmetto State.
After graduating from high school, Bessent attended Yale College, where he studied political science and earned the John Proctor Clarke Prize for outstanding service and leadership.
Indeed, the young…
