Scott, Bobby, 1947-

<p>Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott has represented Virginia’s third congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993. Prior to his service in Congress, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978 to 1983 and in the Senate of Virginia from 1983 to 1993.</p>

<p>During his tenure in the Virginia General Assembly, Congressman Scott successfully sponsored laws critical to Virginians in education, employment, health care, social services, economic development, crime prevention and consumer protection. His legislative successes in the state legislature included laws that increased Virginia’s minimum wage, created the Governor’s Employment and Training Council and improved health care benefits for women, infants and children.</p>

<p>Congressman Scott has the distinction of being the first African-American elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Virginia since Reconstruction and only the second African-American elected to Congress in Virginia’s history. Having a maternal grandfather of Filipino ancestry also gives him the distinction of being the first American with Filipino ancestry to serve as a voting member of Congress.</p>

SCOTT, Robert C., a Representative from Virginia; born in Washington, D.C., April 30, 1947; graduated from Groton School, Groton, Mass., 1965; A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1969; J.D., Boston College School of Law, Boston, Mass., 1973; lawyer, private practice; United States Army Reserve, 1970-1974; Massachusetts Army National Guard, 1974-1976; member of the Virginia state house of delegates, 1978-1983; member of the Virginia state senate, 1983-1993; unsuccessful candidate for election to the One Hundredth Congress in 1986; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-present); chair, Committee on Education and Labor (One Hundred Sixteenth and One Hundred Seventeenth Congresses).

<p>Robert Cortez Scott (born April 30, 1947) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the dean of Virginia's congressional delegation. The district serves most of the majority-black precincts of Hampton Roads, including all of the independent cities of Franklin, Newport News (where he resides) and Portsmouth, parts of the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Norfolk and Suffolk and all of Isle of Wight County.</p>

<p>Scott was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Newport News, Virginia. He is of African American and Filipino (maternal grandfather) descent. His father Dr. Charles Waldo Scott (1916–93) was a pioneering African American surgeon and in 1952 became the first African American appointed to the Newport News school board in the 20th century. Scott's mother Mae Hamlin-Scott (1918-2010), a graduate in chemistry from the University of Michigan, was an educator who taught science in the Newport News public schools.</p>

<p>Scott graduated from Groton School in 1965. He went on to receive his A.B. in government from Harvard College in (1969) and his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1973. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.</p>

<p>Scott is a former member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard (1970-1973) and Army Reserve (1974-1976). He was a lawyer in private practice, in Newport News, Virginia from 1973 to 1991.</p>