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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisScott Wike LUCAS
(1892-1968)
Senate Years of Service:
1939-1951Party: DemocratLUCAS, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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