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In 2012, Angelle was elected to succeed the retiring Republican James Morgan "Jimmy" Field (born 1940) on the Public Service Commission, a position he filled until early 2017.  In 2015, he ran for governor as a Republican and finished in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] with 214,907 votes (19.3 percent).​ Another Moderate Republican candidate, former Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, drew 166,656 votes (15 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2015.</ref> In the ensuing [[general election]], Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[David Vitter]] was defeated by the current Democratic Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], whose liberal positions were mostly hidden to the voters. Dardenne broke partisan ranks to endorse Edwards, under whose administration he is the Commissioner of Administration, but Angelle took no stand on the Edwards-Vitter showdown. The failure of the Republican candidates to coalesce behind Vitter worked greatly to Edwards' advantage.

In 2012, Angelle was elected to succeed the retiring Republican James Morgan "Jimmy" Field (born 1940) on the Public Service Commission, a position he filled until early 2017.  In 2015, he ran for governor as a Republican and finished in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] with 214,907 votes (19.3 percent).​ Another Moderate Republican candidate, former Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, drew 166,656 votes (15 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 2015.</ref> In the ensuing [[general election]], Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[David Vitter]] was defeated by the current Democratic Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], whose liberal positions were mostly hidden to the voters. Dardenne broke partisan ranks to endorse Edwards, under whose administration he is the Commissioner of Administration, but Angelle took no stand on the Edwards-Vitter showdown. The failure of the Republican candidates to coalesce behind Vitter worked greatly to Edwards' advantage.

In 2016, Angelle ran in the open 3rd congressional district in a bid to succeed Moderate Republican Representative Charles Boustany, a retired Lafayette [[physician]]. Angelle led in the primary with  91,532 votes (29 percent) to 84,912 (26 percent) for eventual winner, fellow Republican [[Clay Higgins]], a former spokesman for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office known for his  Crime Stoppers videos that attack the criminal element.​<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 2016.</ref> In the lower-turnout  general election on December 10, 2016, Higgins topped Angelle, 77, 671 (56 percent) to 60,762 (44 percent). From the primary to the general election, Angelle lost 30,770 votes and Higgins lost 7,241 of his original voters.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 10, 2016.</ref> Outgoing Representative Boustany instead ran unsuccessfully for the [[United States Senate]] seat vacated by David Vitter but lost out to Democrat-turned-Republican [[John Neeley Kennedy]], who still holds the seat. Angelle's other opponents included [[conservative]] former state Representative [[Brett Geymann]] of [[Lake Charles]] and former United States Ambassador to [[Timor-Leste| East Timor]] [[Grover Rees, III]], of Lafayette, who polled only 1 percent of the ballots cast in the primary.

In 2016, Angelle ran in the open 3rd congressional district in a bid to succeed Moderate Republican Representative Charles Boustany, a retired Lafayette [[physician]]. Angelle led in the primary with  91,532 votes (29 percent) to 84,912 (26 percent) for eventual winner, fellow Republican [[Clay Higgins]], a former spokesman for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office known for his  Crime Stoppers videos that attack the criminal element.​<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 2016.</ref> In the lower-turnout  general election on December 10, 2016, Higgins topped Angelle, 77, 671 (56 percent) to 60,762 (44 percent). From the primary to the general election, Angelle lost 30,770 votes and Higgins lost 7,241 of his original voters.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, December 10, 2016.</ref> Outgoing Representative Boustany instead ran unsuccessfully for the [[United States Senate]] seat vacated by David Vitter but lost out to Democrat-turned-Republican [[John Neely Kennedy]], who still holds the seat. Angelle's other opponents included [[conservative]] former state Representative [[Brett Geymann]] of [[Lake Charles]] and former United States Ambassador to [[Timor-Leste| East Timor]] [[Grover Rees, III]], of Lafayette, who polled only 1 percent of the ballots cast in the primary.

In May 2017, Angelle left the Public Service Commission on appointment to his current position in the [[Donald Trump]] administration as the fourth director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in [[Washington, D.C.]] , a position within the Department of the Interior under Secretary [[Ryan Zinke]], who subsequently resigned the [[Cabinet]] position in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_911560b2-3efb-11e7-9b89-03c7953e6b78.html|title=Louisiana political veteran Scott Angelle to head federal offshore drilling oversight agency|author=Richard Thompson|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=May 22, 2017|accessdate=May 19, 2020}}</ref>​

In May 2017, Angelle left the Public Service Commission on appointment to his current position in the [[Donald Trump]] administration as the fourth director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in [[Washington, D.C.]] , a position within the Department of the Interior under Secretary [[Ryan Zinke]], who subsequently resigned the [[Cabinet]] position in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_911560b2-3efb-11e7-9b89-03c7953e6b78.html|title=Louisiana political veteran Scott Angelle to head federal offshore drilling oversight agency|author=Richard Thompson|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=May 22, 2017|accessdate=May 19, 2020}}</ref>​