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Robert Winston "T-90" ("Tee-Niny") Scales, born June 22, 1926, died October 30, 2000, was a civic leader, politician, and small business owner in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Scales was the first African-American elected to the City Council of Murfreesboro, and first African-American Vice-Mayor of that municipality. He was husband of Mary Scales, the first black faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University and similarly pioneering member of the City Council and City School Board of Murfreesboro, and father of Madelyn Scales Harris, who was elected to the same City Council in 2010. ==Life and career== Robert Winston Scales was born to Henry Preston and Willie Burkeen Scales on June 22, 1926. The couple owned and managed the Scales & Son Funeral Home; founded by Preston Scales in 1916, the business was the first black-owned funeral home in Murfreesboro and in Rutherford County, Tennessee.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.blackenterprise.com/small-business/murfreesboro-first-black-business-fourth-generatio/ )〕 Robert Scales graduated from Holloway High School, in Murfreesboro. Scales enrolled at Tennessee State University, received his bachelor's degree from that institution,〔〔 and went on to work in the family business, Scales & Son Funeral Home, eventually owning and running the business. In addition to managing the small business, Scales went on to serve as the first African-American elected to the Murfreesboro City Council (serving 21 years), and as the first African-American Vice-Mayor of the city (serving 8 of those years).〔Bill Trail, and Thelma Harper, Co-Sponsors, 2001, "Tennessee Senate Joint Resolution 54: A Resolution to honor the memory of Robert Winston "Tee-Niny" Scales of Rutherford County," TN SJR0054 | 2000-2001 | 102nd General Assembly. March 1, 2001, see (), () and (), accessed 5 May 2015.〕〔Tennessee Secretary of State. TN SJR0054 | 2000-2001 | 102nd General Assembly. 01 March 2001, see (), accessed May 05, 2015.〕 In 1949, Scales married his wife Mary, a teacher who would become the first black faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University, and later the first African-American woman elected to the City School Board and City Council in Murfreesboro.〔Bill Ketron, and Jim Tracy, Thelma Harper, Co-Sponsors, 2014, "Tennessee Senate Resolution 67: A Resolution to Honor the Memory of Mary C. Scales of Murfreesboro," TN SR0067 | 2013-2014 | 108th General Assembly, February 6, 2014, see (), () and (), accessed 5 May 2015.〕〔LegiScan. TN SR0067 | 2013-2014 | 108th General Assembly. 06 February 2014, see (), accessed May 05, 2015.〕 Following his death on October 30, 2000, Robert Winston "Tee-Niny" Scales was honored by a joint resolution of 102nd Session of the houses of the Tennessee legislature.〔〔 His daughter, Madelyn Scales Harris, was elected to the Murfreesboro City Council in 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert W. Scales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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