What is Scott Pruitt?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Scott Pruitt |image = Scott Pruitt, EPA official portrait (cropped).jpg |office = 14th [[Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency]] |president = [[Donald Trump]] |term_start = February 17, 2017 |term_end = July 6, 2018 |succeeding = |predecessor = [[Gina McCarthy]] |successor = [[Andrew R. Wheeler]] |office1 = 17th [[Attorney General of Oklahoma]] |governor1 = [[Mary Fallin]] |term_start1 = January 10, 2011 |term_end1 = February 17, 2017 |predecessor1 = [[Drew Edmondson]] |successor1 = [[Michael J. Hunter]] |birth_name = Edward Scott Pruitt<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sbts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/11/Catalog_directory_Aug2013.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-12-13 |archive-date=2016-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220151011/http://www.sbts.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/11/Catalog_directory_Aug2013.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|5|9}} |birth_place = [[Danville, Kentucky]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |spouse = {{marriage|Marlyn Pruitt|1992}} |alma_mater = [[Georgetown College]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[University of Tulsa]] {{small|([[Juris Doctor|JD]])}} }} '''Edward Scott Pruitt''' (born May 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] politician from the state of [[Oklahoma]]. Scott was the 14th [[Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency]] from February 17, 2017 until his resignation on July 6, 2018. He was the [[Oklahoma Attorney General]] serving from 2011 through 2017. Pruitt was a [[Oklahoma Senate|State Senator]], representing [[Tulsa County, Oklahoma|Tulsa]] and [[Wagoner County, Oklahoma|Wagoner]] counties from 1998 until 2006. On December 7, 2016, [[President-elect of the United States|President-elect]] [[Donald Trump]] selected Pruitt to be his nominee as the next [