{"id":21718,"date":"2026-04-22T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/georgia-democratic-rep-david-scott-80-has-died\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:02:06","slug":"georgia-democratic-rep-david-scott-80-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/georgia-democratic-rep-david-scott-80-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Democratic Rep. David Scott, 80, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) has died at the age of 80, according to Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), who disclosed his death at a committee hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>First elected to the state Assembly in Georgia in 1974, Scott\u2019s career in politics spanned decades. The 12-term lawmaker became the first Black chair of the House\u2019s powerful Agriculture Committee when he was tapped to lead the panel in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/20\/david-scott-reelection-questioned-democrats-00142290\" target=\"_blank\">faced criticism for seeking reelection in 2024<\/a> even as declining health imperiled his ability to negotiate a $1.5 trillion farm bill. Scott was also seeking reelection to his Atlanta-area district later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) has died at the age of 80, according to Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), who disclosed his death at a committee hearing on Wednesday. First elected to the state Assembly in Georgia in 1974, Scott\u2019s career in politics spanned decades. The 12-term lawmaker became the first Black chair of the House\u2019s powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}