Rick Scott Bio
Real Name: Richard Lynn Scott
Profession: Politician, Lawyer
Personal Life
Date of Birth : 1 December 1952
Age (as in 2019) : 66 Years
Birthplace : Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Zodiac sign : Sagittarius
Nationality: American
School : Dedman School of Law
University: Southern Methodist University, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Educational Qualification: Juris Doctor degree
Net Worth : $225 Million
Family
Father: Orba Scott
Mother: Esther J. Fry
Marital Status : Married
Spouse : Ann Scott
Children: 2
Daughter: Allison Scott, Jordan Scott
Physical Stats &
MoreHeight (approx.) : 183 cm (in centimeters), 1.83 m, 6’ 1” (in feet inches)
Rick Scott Wiki
Rick Scott is an American businessman and politician, who is presently serving as the junior United States senator from Florida since 2019. He has also served as the 45th governor of Florida from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Early life
Rick Scott has full name Richard Lynn Scott on December 1, 1952, in Bloomington, Illinois in a middle-class family. His parents divorced when he was just 2 years old, his mother married a person named ‘Orba Scott’, which has given him the surname ‘Scott’.
Rick Scott went to ‘North Kansas City High School’ and later attended ‘Community College’. Rick Scott has also earned a bachelor’s degree in Business administration and a law degree. On November 6, 1978, he earned the license from Texas Bar to practice law.
Career
Rick Scott has earned law practice license in the late 1970s from Texas Bar ad began practicing at Dallas’s largest law firm named ‘Johnson and Swanson’. He continued his practice for 10 years almost and made an unsuccessful bid to purchase a hospital in the year 1987.
In 1988 Scott and his wife put there all savings of $125,000 for ‘Columbia Hospital Corporation’ that Scott set up with two other business partners. A person named Financier Richard Rainwater from Fort Worth also contributed $125,000 in the working capital of the company.
Soon ‘Columbia Hospital Corporation’ slowly started purchasing other hospitals and with time it became the largest health care company worldwide with over 340 hospitals, 550 home health locations and 135 surgery centers and in 1989 it also merged with ‘Hospital Corporation of America’ to become ‘Columbia/HCA’.
He left Columbia/HCA in the year 1997, he started the different thing and became Venture Capitalist and also become a partner of George W. Bush as co-owner of American baseball team ‘Texas rangers’.
In 2001 he set up Solantic along with former TV anchor Karen Bowling. It is the largest operator of urgent care centers in Florida. By March 2009 Solantic had 23 centers in Florida.
In 2010, Rick Scott himself funded his campaign for Governor of Florida under the Republican Party and he won that. He got re-elected four years later in 2014 and then in 2018, went on to successfully run for a seat in the United States Senate, representing Florida.
Personal Life
Rick Scott has married once in his life, he is married to Frances Annette Holland; the couple tied the wedding knot on April 20, 1972.
They together have two children, two daughters, and four grandchildren.
The couple has started numerous charitable works and has involved in many philanthropic activities. They have together founded ‘Naples Community Church’ in 2006.
Net worth
As per information available on the web, Rick Scott’s net worth is reported to be $260 million as of the year 2018.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott
https://pelosi.house.gov/