Biography:

Marvin Scott has been a sociology professor at Butler University in Indianapolis for more than 13 years. For nine years, he was president of Marvin Scott Associates Inc., a management consulting firm.

He served as president of St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Va., in the late 1980s and before that was a special assistant to the chancellor of the Board of Regents for Higher Education in Massachusetts.

He and his wife, Dulce Maria Scott, have four children.

Past Campaigns:

Marvin Scott has run for the congressional district that covers Indianapolis several times, and he won 47 percent of the vote in a near upset of then Democratic Rep. Andy Jacobs Jr. during the GOP landslide year of 1994.

He lost in the primaries in 1996 and 1998 and won the GOP nomination in 2000, but only got 40 percent of the vote that November, compared with 59 percent for Rep. Julia Carson.

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