Scott Perry (politician)

Scott Gordon Perry ( born May 27, 1962 in San Diego, California) is an American politician. Since 2013 he represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Scott Perry attended Northern High School in Dillsburg (Pennsylvania), the Cumberland - Perry Vo -Tech School and thereafter until 1991, the Pennsylvania State University. He worked thereafter as a private businessman. In 1993 he founded the company Hydrotech Mechanical Services Inc. in Dillsburg. Since 1980 he is a member of the National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania, in which he rose to colonel. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. He has held several offices in the youth organizations of the party in Pennsylvania. Between 2007 and 2012 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. There he sat in five committees and eight caucuses.

In the congressional elections of 2012, Perry was in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania with 60 percent of the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jason Altmire on January 3, 2013. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Committee on Homeland Security and the Transportation Committee as well as a total of seven sub-committees. With his wife, Christy, he has two daughters.

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