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Born and raised in Iowa, Scott's political interests began in 1988 during the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses, during which he met most presidential candidates of both major political parties, even pitching horseshoes with then Vice-President George H. W. Bush. Later that year he became the founding president of the Kossuth County Teenage Republicans.
When Scott turned 18 and became eligible to vote, he registered not as a Republican, but as a Democrat, in some part because of the influence of his late grandfather, Bradford "Ike" Buffington, a staunch Democrat who always lauded President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as "a friend of the farmer."
In 1990, as a Pew Scholar, Scott attended Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, ("Orange," referring to the Dutch royal house of Oranje), a private liberal arts college founded by Dutch-American Calvinists. In 1993, he was an intern in the British House of Commons for then Labour Party Spokesman on Energy, Martin O'Neill , M.P. (for Ochil), now a peer in the House of Lords (Baron of Clackmannan). In 1994, he returned to London to intern for The Reverend Derrick White, the Bishop of London's Chaplain to the Homeless (Church of England). Scott graduated in 1996 with both the John Stackhouse Award for leadership and the Faculty Honors Award, Northwestern's highest honor. In 1996, he earned a Masters in Religion from Yale University.
