Scott Perry is the incumbent U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th District, first elected in 2012. He is a retired Pennsylvania Army National Guard brigadier general, co-founded a mechanical contracting firm, and served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives before Congress. He serves on the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and is a former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.[1][2][3]
Perry was born in San Diego, California, in 1962. According to his official biography, he is the grandson of Colombian immigrants and the son of a single mother who settled the family in the Harrisburg area and then Dillsburg, and he began working at age 13 as a fruit picker.[1][2] He graduated from Northern High School and the Cumberland-Perry Vo-Tech School in 1980, then earned a B.S. in business administration management from Pennsylvania State University in 1991 while working full-time. He later earned a master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.[1][2]
Perry enlisted in the Army in 1980 and was commissioned a second lieutenant through Officer Candidate School. A helicopter pilot, he commanded a National Guard aviation battalion that deployed to Iraq in 2009-2010, became a colonel in 2011, was promoted to brigadier general in 2014, and retired on March 1, 2019, after serving as Assistant Adjutant General.[2] Before politics, he worked as a mechanic, dock worker, draftsman and licensed insurance agent. In 1993 he and his mother started a mechanical contracting firm in Dillsburg that served utilities in several states.[1][2]
Perry chaired the Carroll Township Planning Commission, then served three terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, from 2006 until 2012.[1][2] He was first elected to the U.S. House in 2012. He won re-election in 2022 with 53.8% of the vote and defeated Janelle Stelson 50.5%-49.3% in 2024.[1] He serves on the House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. His official biography describes him as an early member and former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.[2][3]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.
