Robert Winston "T-90" ("Tee-Niny") Scales, born June 22, 1926, died October 30, 2000, was an American civic leader, politician, and small business owner in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
[citation needed] 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.
][3][4] In 1949, Scales married his wife Mary, a teacher who would become the first black faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University,[5] and later the first African-American woman elected to the City School Board and City Council in Murfreesboro.
[6][7][8] 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.
[3][4] His daughter, Madelyn Scales Harris, was elected to the Murfreesboro City Council in 2010.