{"id":29674,"date":"2026-04-22T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29674"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:10:15","slug":"sen-ossoff-on-passing-of-congressman-david-scott","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-on-passing-of-congressman-david-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff on Passing of Congressman David Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington. D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlisha and I join all Georgians in mourning the passing of Congressman David Scott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe send our deepest condolences to his beloved wife, Alfredia, his daughters Dayna and Marcye, the entire Scott family, and his entire staff during this difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCongressman Scott devoted his life to public service and the State of Georgia, elected to the Georgia State House in 1974 and the State Senate in 1982 before being elected to Congress in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe State of Georgia is a better place thanks to the service of Congressman Scott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMay his memory be a blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington. D.C.&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement. \u201cAlisha and I join all Georgians in mourning the passing of Congressman David Scott. \u201cWe send our deepest condolences to his beloved wife, Alfredia, his daughters Dayna and Marcye, the entire Scott family, and his entire staff during this difficult time. \u201cCongressman Scott devoted his life [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29674","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29675,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29674\/revisions\/29675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}