- Robert W. Scott
Robert Walter (Bob) Scott (born
13 June 1929 ,Haw River, North Carolina ) was the Democratic governor of the state ofNorth Carolina from 1969 to 1973.The son of North Carolina Governor
W. Kerr Scott , and grandson and nephew of state legislators, Bob Scott was a dairy farmer before being elected to the post of Lieutenant Governor in 1964 and that of Governor in 1968. Constitutionally barred from seeking another term, he later served as co-chairman of theAppalachian Regional Commission and as President of theNorth Carolina Community College System , from 1983 until 1995. Scott unsuccessfully ran for Governor in 1980, but lost in the Democratic primary. [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=66119]His daughter,
Meg Scott Phipps , later became North Carolina's commissioner of agriculture. In 2003, Scott was implicated in a campaign finance scandal which drove Phipps to resign from office. She was later convicted of taking bribes and served a four year prison sentence at a federal facility inWest Virginia .External links
* [http://www.ncspin.com/ncnotables.2006.09.21.php NC Spin profile]
* [http://www.unctv.org/biocon/bscott/index.html UNC-TV: Biographical Conversations with Bob Scott]
* [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=10865 OurCampaigns.com]
* [http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/scott_15101___article.html/state_governor.html Scott honored for preservation work] , "Hendersonville Times-News", June 29, 2008
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/C-0336-1/ Oral History Interview with Robert W. Scott] at [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/ Oral Histories of the American South ]
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