Scott Brown

He married Gail Huff, a news reporter with Boston TV channel WCVB, in 1986. The couple has two daughters – Ayla, born in 1988, a former ‘American Idol’ semi-finalist, and Arianna, born in 1990.

He resides in a colonial-style bungalow in Wrentham, Massachusetts, with his family. The couple owns a six-room house in Rye, New Hampshire, three condos in Brighton, Boston, and a time-share unit on Caribbean Island, Aruba.

Scott Philip Brown was born on September 12, 1959 in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, situated on Seavey’s Island, Kittery, Maine to English immigrants Claude Bruce Brown and Judith Ann.

He shifted to Wakefield, Massachusetts, with his mother after his parents divorced when he was just one. Each of his parents re-married three times. He was brought up by his mother and grandparents.

He visited his father at Newburyport, Massachusetts, who worked as a city councilor for nearly 18 years and assisted him on political campaigns for state office.

He completed his schooling from Wakefield High School in 1977, after which he attended Tufts University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1981.

He studied law at Boston College Law School and earned his Juris Doctor in 1985.

He joined Massachusetts Army National Guard in 1978, after being inspired by the rescue efforts of Army National Guard, where he took ROTC classes for training in infantry, quartermaster and airborne duties at Northwestern University.

He was elected as the property assessor of Wrentham, Massachusetts in 1992. It was during this time that he was bitten by the political bug and was elected to the Wrentham Board of Selectmen, in 1995.

In 1994, he joined the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) and rose to the post of lieutenant colonel, with brief deployments in Paraguay in 2005 and Kazakhstan in 2007. After 35 years of service, he retired from the Army in 2014.

In 1998, he was successfully elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he represented 9th Norfolk District for three terms.

He gradually moved up the state politics through his victory in the March 2004 special election, replacing Cheryl Jacques, in the Massachusetts State Senate. He successfully won the reelection in November, followed by in 2006 and 2008.

His surprise win in the 2010 special elections made him the first Republican to represent the US Senate from Massachusetts, after Edward Brooke in 1972.

As a legislator, he introduced a check-off box in the State income tax form allowing veterans to indicate whether they served in Afghanistan or Iraq wars, known as the ‘Welcome Home’ bonus, making them eligible for $1000.

Even though he maintained a low profile, post his election, he managed to get the Democrat sponsored ‘jobs bill’ passed by the Senate in 2010, despite being one of the only five Republicans who supported the motion.