{{Short description|American politician (born 1953)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Scott Klug | image = Scottklug.jpg | state = Wisconsin | district = {{ushr|WI|2|2nd}} | term_start = January 3, 1991 | term_end = January 3, 1999 | predecessor = Robert Kastenmeier | successor = Tammy Baldwin | birth_name = Scott Leo Klug | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|1|16}} | birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | spouse = Theresa Summers | children = 3 | education = {{ubl |Lawrence University (BA) |Northwestern University (MA) |University of Wisconsin, Madison (MBA)}} }} '''Scott Leo Klug'''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/annualcommenceme1976nort/page/36/mode/2up|title=One Hundred Eighteenth Commencement|work=Northwestern University|year=1976}}</ref> (born January 16, 1953) is an American lobbyist, author, and businessman, as well as a former politician and television reporter. From 1991 to 1999, he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin, representing {{ushr|Wisconsin|2}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2010&search_term=klug |title=Wisconsin Historical Society-Scott Klug |access-date=June 14, 2013 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212501/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2010&search_term=klug |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life, education and career== Klug grew up in West Allis and Wauwatosa, both Milwaukee-area suburbs. He attended Marquette University High School, a Roman Catholic boys school, and then Lawrence University, graduating with a degree in history in 1975. The following year he received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He later received an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990. For 14 years, Klug was a television journalist,<ref name="Snider2005">{{cite book|last=Snider|first=J. H.|title=Speak Softly And Carry a Big Stick: How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7c6cHTYh3UC&pg=PA171|accessdate=June 14, 2013|year=2005|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9780595347049|pages=171–}}</ref> serving as anchor and reporter for various stations in Seattle, Washington, Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.<ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-04-10-9404100250-story.html, Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1994; retrieved June 12, 2020]</ref>
==U.S. Congress== Klug was first elected to the 102nd Congress in 1990, defeating, in a surprise upset, 16 term incumbent Robert Kastenmeier, with 53% of the vote. He won re-election in 1992 with 63% of the vote, in 1994 with 69% of the vote, and in 1996 with 57% of the vote.
While in office, Klug was a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In his first term, he gained national attention as one of the members of the Republican Gang of Seven. He also opposed the George H. W. Bush administration by supporting abortion rights and family leave.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Telegraph-Herald |date=November 4, 1992 |title=Klug Holds Off Deer for Congressional Seat |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6DdFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2177,801117&dq=ada-deer+scott-klug&hl=en}}</ref>
While in Congress, Klug opposed the federal drinking age, saying alcohol regulation should be a matter left to individual states, and advocated the revocation of the 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reason.com/news/show/30076.html |title=Licensed to Drink: A university chancellor backs an underage drinking permit|author= Ed Carson|date=December 1996 |publisher=Reason magazine}}</ref>
At the urging of Republican leadership under Newt Gingrich, Klug presented a resolution stating that the House would not support continuing resolutions to keep government funding; this led to the United States federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996.<ref name="MaranissWeisskopf2008">{{cite book|last1=Maraniss|first1=David|last2=Weisskopf|first2=Michael|title=Tell Newt to Shut Up|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=avOBcjWKvTsC&pg=PA179|accessdate=June 14, 2013|date=June 30, 2008|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=9781439128886|pages=179–}}</ref>
Klug did not run for re-election in 1998, and his term expired on January 3, 1999.<ref name="Buys">{{cite news |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |date=August 10, 1998 |title=Klug Group Buys Travel Magazine |author=Marilynn Marchionne |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P6caAAAAIBAJ&pg=4876,8208752&dq=scott+klug&hl=en }}{{Dead link|date=November 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> Democrat Tammy Baldwin ran for Congress in the 2nd district and subsequently won his seat.
==Post-Congressional career== Klug currently serves as director of public affairs for Foley & Lardner, a Wisconsin-based law firm, and represents clients in Washington and various state capitals.<ref>[https://www.foley.com/en/people/k/klug-scott-l Foley & Lardner website, retrieved June 12, 2020]</ref>
In 2013, he authored ''The Alliance'', a mystery novel about religion and antiquities.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Alumni Authors|last = anon.|year = 2013|journal = Lawrence|volume = 95 |issue = 1 |page = 40}}</ref>
In 2007, Klug co-chaired Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign in Wisconsin along with former U.S. Sen. Bob Kasten and former State Sen. Cathy Stepp. On January 30, 2008, Giuliani dropped out of the race.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giuliani-abandons-bid-endorses-mccain/ | publisher=CBS News | title=Giuliani Abandons Bid, Endorses McCain | date=January 30, 2008}}</ref>
In August 1998, Klug, as head of Barking Sands Media, purchased ''Wisconsin Trails'', a travel magazine. He was the CEO of Trails Media Group, based in Black Earth, Wisconsin, until 2007 when the company was sold to the ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
==Personal life== Klug is a resident of Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Theresa Summers Klug. The couple has three children.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{CongBio|K000274}} * {{C-SPAN|16751}}
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