About Joe Scarborough
Charles Joseph Scarborough is an American television host and former politician who is the co-host of Morning Joe on MS NOW with his wife Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist. He previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network. A former member of the Republican Party, Scarborough was in the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 1st district from 1995 to 2001. He was appointed to the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce in 2002 and was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was named in the 2011 Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. During his first year of law school, Scarborough wrote a musical about televangelists called The Gospel According to Esther which premiered at the University of Alabama to positive reviews. Scarborough's win coincided with a large Republican wave, known as the Republican Revolution, that allowed the Republicans to take the majority in the House for the first time in 40 years. In 1999, while still serving in Congress, Scarborough founded the free weekly Pensacola-area newspaper The Florida Sun.
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