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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisLUCAS, Scott Wike
(1892—1968)
Senate Years of Service:
1939-1951
Party:
Democrat
LUCAS, Scott Wike, a Representative and a Senator from Illinois; born on a farm near Chandlerville, Cass County, Ill., February 19, 1892; attended the public schools and graduated from the law department of Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington in 1914; admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice at Havana, Ill.; during the First World War served as an enlisted man and later as a lieutenant in the United States Army; State’s attorney of Mason County 1920-1925; chairman of State Tax Commission 1933-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); did not seek renomination, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1938 and reelected in 1944 and served from January 3, 1939, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950; Democratic whip 1947-1949; majority leader 1949-1951; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth Congresses); engaged in the practice of law in Springfield, Ill., and Washington, D.C.; died en route to Florida at Rocky Mount, N.C., February 22, 1968; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Havana, Ill.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; American National Biography
; Schapsmeier, Edward, and Schapsmeier, Frederick. ”Scott W. Lucas of Havana, His Rise and Fall as Majority Leader in the United States Senate.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
70 (November 1977): 302-20.
Bowen, Laurel G., and Mary Michals. “The Scott Wike Lucas Collection: Manuscripts and Audiovisual Resources.” Illinois Historical Journal
77 (Autumn 1984): 193-96.
Deason, Brian. “Eye of the Storm: A Political Biography of U.S. Senator Scott W. Lucas.” Ph.d. dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2001.
___. “Scott Lucas, Everett Dirksen, and the 1950 Senate Election in Illinois.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
95 (Spring 2002): 33-51.
Schapsmeier, Edward L., and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. “Scott W. Lucas of Havana: His Rise and Fall as Majority Leader in the United States Senate.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
70 (November 1977): 302-20.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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