Marvin Scott

Who is Marvin Scott?

Marvin Bailey Scott is an American politician in Indianapolis, Indiana, and unsuccessful 2010 Republican candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 7th Congressional District. He was previously the unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Indiana in 2004 against incumbent Democrat Evan Bayh, but lost to Bayh, receiving 37%, 904,843 votes. Scott earlier was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Indiana's 10th congressional district in 1994 against Andrew Jacobs, Jr. and received 47.5% of the vote, as well as in 2000 against Congresswoman Julia Carson receiving 40%, 62,233 votes. Scott also unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Congress in the 10th district in 1996 losing to former State Senator Virginia Murphy Blankenbaker.

Scott has been a sociology professor at Butler University for eighteen years, and was president for nine years of Marvin Scott Associates, a management-consulting firm.