Scott Perry
Scott Gordon Perry (* 27. May 1962 in San Diego , California ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . Since 2013 he has represented the 4th congressional constituency of the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .
Family, education and work
Scott Perry was already working on the fruit harvest in Mechanicsburg when he was 13 . He attended Northern High School in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania and the Cumberland-Perry Vo-Tech School and graduated from both in 1980. He then worked full-time and studied at the Pennsylvania State University , from which he graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Business Administration .
He worked as a private businessman. In 1993 he founded Hydrotech Mechanical Services Inc. in Dillsburg, which carries out construction and maintenance for companies between New York and North Carolina .
Perry has been a member of the Pennsylvania State National Guard since 1980. After basic training at Fort Dix , he became a specialist in technical drawing . From January 2009 to January 2010 he was the commandant in occupied Iraq . He received a Masters in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College .
He has two daughters with his wife Christy.
Political career
Perry held a number of offices in Republican youth organizations in Pennsylvania and was involved in various local projects. Between 2007 and 2012 he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives . There he sat on five committees and eight caucuses.
In the 2012 election , Perry was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth congressional constituency of Pennsylvania with 60 percent of the vote, where he succeeded Jason Altmire on January 3, 2013 . He was re-elected in all subsequent elections, including 2016; his mandate runs until January 3, 2019. He is or was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee , the Internal Security Committee and the Transport Committee , as well as a total of seven sub-committees.
After the Pennsylvania constituency reorganization, he ran in the 2018 election in the tenth district. He prevailed against the Democrat George Scott with 51.4% of the vote. His term of office begins on January 3, 2019 and ends in January 2021.
Web links
- Scott Perry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- Web presence at the Congress (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Scott Perry. In: GOP.gov (English).
- ↑ Scott Perry - Ballotpedia . In: Ballotpedia . ( ballotpedia.org [accessed December 1, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perry, Scott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perry, Scott Gordon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California |