Scott Brown

Scott Philip Brown ( born September 12, 1959 in Kittery, York County, Maine ) is an American politician of the Republican Party. From 2010 to 2013 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.

After his parents divorced, Scott Brown grew up in Wakefield ( Massachusetts) to live with his grandparents and an aunt. He attended Wakefield High School and then studied at Tufts University and at the Law School of Boston College. At age 19, he joined the National Guard in his home state of Massachusetts and served three decades there. Brown is one of the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He has worked as a lawyer specializing in family law.

His political career began in Scott Brown as an alderman in Wrentham. Then he spent three election periods from 1998 Member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts and was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 2004.

From January 2010 to January 2013, Brown was elected representative of the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. After the death of Edward Kennedy, who had held for 47 years as a figurehead of the political left the Senate seat, a by-election was necessitated on 19 January 2010. This is Brown sat down with 52 to 47 percent of the vote against Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, Attorney General of the State, by what was interpreted by many observers as a vote against health care reform President Obama. He was the first Republican since Edward Brooke in 1972, who was elected for Massachusetts in the Senate, and the first member of his party in Congress from Massachusetts since 1997, which helped him to national prominence.

Since the election period began with the election of Edward Kennedy in January 2007, his Senate seat ended in January 2013, Brown had to defend this in the midterm elections on November 6, 2012, and defeated his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. He retired from the Senate on January 3, 2013.

Brown is also present in the media and in conversation for another political office. So he was following the resignation of John Kerry in the U.S. Senate in January 2013 as a preferred candidate of many Republicans to capture the vacant seat in the by-election in June 2013, which he refused; In the following months, however, he fed speculation that he would compete in the 2014 election against Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen in the U.S. neighboring state of New Hampshire or in the same year for the successor Deval Patrick in the Office of the Governor of Massachusetts.

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