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Scott Avedisian is the Republican mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island.

Background
Scott Avedisian was born in Warwick and educated in the city’s public schools and in Washington, DC. He graduated from Providence College. He completed the state and local program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Avedisian has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Human Letters from the New England Institute of Technology. He was chosen in 2005 as one of 24 inaugural Aspen-Rodel fellows by the Aspen Institute, a bi-partisan group of elected officials charged with reclaiming the middle ground of American politics.

Political career
Prior to his election as the 15th Mayor of Warwick, Scott Avedisian served five terms as a member of the Warwick City Council.

Avedisian was first elected mayor in a special election in February 2000 with 58% of the vote in a five-way race. He was re-elected with nearly 70% of the vote that November.