Thomas Scott Garrett (born July 22, 1956) is an
American politician
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. He served on the
Lynchburg, Virginia city council from 2006 until 2010, when he entered the
Virginia House of Delegates
The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two parts of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-number ...
, where until 2020 he represented the 23rd district, made up of parts of
Amherst and
Bedford Counties and Lynchburg. He is a member of the
Republican Party.
Garrett received an M.D. degree from the
University of Virginia
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in 1984, and has been a practicing
general surgeon
General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on alimentary canal and abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid g ...
in the Lynchburg area since 1989.
Electoral history
See also
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Lynchburg, Virginia
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2009 Virginia elections
References
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1956 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
Virginia city council members
University of Virginia School of Medicine alumni
American surgeons
Methodists from Virginia
Politicians from Lynchburg, Virginia
21st-century American legislators
20th-century American physicians
21st-century American physicians
21st-century Virginia politicians
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