Scott Phillip Brown

Scott Phillip Brown is a Republican running  for the U.S. Presidential Elections 2012

Biography

Scott Phillip Brown, a Republican and Presidential Election candidate for the upcoming elections, was born on September, 12, 1959, in Kittery, Maine. Later, his family moved to Massachusetts and it is there that Brown began his political career. Scott Brown is currently junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and has previously served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court, first in the State House of Representatives from 1998 till 2004, and then in the State Senate from 2004 till 2010.

Scott Brown was first elected in the 2010 special election, in which he faced the Democrat candidate, Attorney General, Martha Coakley. The candidacy was to succeed U.S. Senator, Ted Kennedy, and he faced a tough competition from Coakley. In the beginning Brown trailed Coakley by a large margin but he later won the elections and became the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts since Edward Brooke in 1972.

Education and Experience

Scott Brown graduated from Wakefield High School in 1977. After graduating from high school, he pursued his Bachelors degree in Arts and History and graduated from Tufts University in 1981. During his undergraduate career at Tufts, Brown was also a member of the Kappa Chapter of Zeta Psi International Fraternity. After graduating from Tufts, Brown became a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1985.

After completing his education, Scott Brown gained experience as a town selectman and assessor. Currently he is also a practicing attorney, specializing in real estate law and serving as a defense counsel in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the Massachusetts Army National Guard.

Interestingly Scott Brown also modeled in his early 20s. In June 1982, Brown won Cosmopolitan Magazine’s ‘America’s Sexiest Man’ contest and posed nude in the centerfold. However, he posed strategically so that ‘nothing could be seen’. After that he managed to get several contracts for catalog modeling and the money which he received helped him get through law school.

Family and Early Life

Scott Brown was born in Kittery, Maine, but he grew up in Wakefield, Massachusetts. His father’s name was Claude Bruce and his mother’s name was Judith. The Brown family is of Scottish origin but they have lived in America for a long time. Brown had to go through a difficult childhood as his parents divorced when he was one-year-old and after that they remarried three times. As a child Scott Brown also got sexually abused and was threatened by the culprit for his life. Brown was also a shoplifter but he later repented for doing that and never returned to it again.

Personal Life

Scott Brown is married to former WCVB-TV reported Gail Huff, and they have two daughters together by, Ayla and Arianna. Brown and Huff met through modeling a few years back and since then have been living happily together.