Francis Joseph "Frank" Scaturro (born July 26, 1972) is an American lawyer, historian, public advocate, and politician.

His father, Salvatore, emigrated from Italy as a boy and was self-employed in a small business fixing air conditioning and refrigeration systems.

Among these, he assisted committee Republicans on the nominations of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Michael Mukasey and Eric Holder to become U.S. Attorney General.

Scaturro published several books and articles about history and law, including President Grant Reconsidered (1998)[3] which triggered a broad scholarly reassessment of the Grant presidency; The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction (2000),[4] an exploration of a key chapter in the history of civil rights; Public Companies (2002),[5] a book he co-authored about making public companies responsible following recent corporate scandals; and Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate (2010),[6] which documented Sen. Arlen Specter's cancer treatment while he was still in office.

[7] Scaturro is currently working on a book about the Alabama Claims dispute between the United States and Great Britain following the Civil War, and how the ensuing arbitration inspired international peacekeeping efforts in future generations.

Civil War general and 18th U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885 and was interred in New York City's Riverside Park.

[9] His efforts drew national media attention, including a 1994 New York Times editorial entitled "Dishonor for a Hero President" which said, "the tomb's lamentable condition demands more funds from Washington.

"[10] Scaturro also sued the Interior Department and National Park Service in federal court to force it to fulfill its legal duties to the public.

Nationally syndicated columnist Michael Barone opined that Mondello preferred to "boot an election in order to maintain his own personal power.

Nonetheless, Scaturro won the Conservative Party primary by a write-in vote—a first in the modern history of New York State for an electoral district that size.

In the general election, Scaturro won 15,603 votes on the Conservative line, despite the absence of a get-out-the-vote drive, the effects of Hurricane Sandy, and a national Democratic wave.

[14] News media reported McCarthy, a nurse and lifelong smoker, was suffering from lung cancer, and on January 8, 2014, she announced that she would not seek reelection.

Syndicated columnist Michael Barone wrote that Scaturro "has a serious chance to win the Republican as well as Conservative nomination this year... [in what] could be a much more seriously contested seat than it was [in 2012].