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Robert Walter (Bob) Scott (born 13 June 1929 , Haw River, North Carolina ) was the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina from 1969 to 1973 . The son of North Carolina governor W. Kerr Scott , Bob Scott was a dairy farmer before being elected to the post of lieutenant governor in 1964 before being elected as governor in 1968 . He later served as President of the North Carolina Community College System from 1983 until 1995 . His daughter, Meg Scott Phipps , later became North Carolina's commissioner of agriculture; in 2003 Bob Scott was implicated in the campaign finance scandal which drove Phipps to resign from office.