The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former football star Herschel Walker to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.

President Trump nominated Walker for the diplomatic post last year , after the retired running back entered the political fray by running as the Republican nominee in Georgia's 2022 Senate race. He lost to incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock by 2.8 points in a runoff.

Walker is the first Senate-confirmed ambassador to the Bahamas in over a decade.

Walker won the Heisman Trophy in 1982 with the University of Georgia Bulldogs, and played professionally for three years for the U.S. Football League's New Jersey Generals — a team that Mr. Trump bought toward the end of Walker's career with the upstart league. After the USFL folded, Walker played in the NFL for

See Full Page