Scott Brown

Senator Scott Brown is a member of the US Republican Party who was elected to succeed the late Ted Kennedy as Senator of Massachusetts in January 2010. He served in this role until January 2013. During this time, he served on the Senate Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Senator Brown hit the headlines when he cast the deciding vote in favour of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which tightened regulation in the US financial services sector. Since then he has established himself as an authoritative commentator on America’s banking and financial services industries.

Brown began his career in public service as an assessor and then a selectman in the town of Wrentham. He went on to serve in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1998-2004) and State Senate (2004-10). As a state and federal legislator he was an advocate of free markets, lower taxes and lower government spending, as well as children’s and victims’ rights and environmental initiatives.

He is the author of a best-selling memoir, “Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances” (Harper, 2011), which chronicles his rise to become one of America’s most surprising and promising new political figures.