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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaHugh Doggett SCOTT, Jr.
(1900-1994)
Senate Years of Service:
1959-1977Party: RepublicanSCOTT, Hugh Doggett, Jr.,
a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., on November 11, 1900;
attended public and private schools; graduated, Randolph-Macon
College, Ashland, Va., 1919 and the law department of the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville 1922; admitted to the bar
in 1922 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pa.; during the
First World War enrolled in the Student Reserve Offices’
Training Corps and the Students’ Army Training Corps;
assistant district attorney of Philadelphia, Pa., 1926-1941; member
of the Governor’s Commission on Reform of the Magistrates
System 1938-1940; during the Second World War was on active duty
for two years with the United States Navy with final rank of
commander; author; vice president of the United States Delegation
to the Interparliamentary Union; elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress
(January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; resumed the
practice of law; chairman of the Republican National Committee
1948-1949; elected to the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the five
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959); was not a
candidate for reelection but was elected in 1958 to the United
States Senate; reelected in 1964 and 1970 and served from January
3, 1959, to January 3, 1977; was not a candidate for reelection in
1976; Republican whip 1969; minority leader 1969-1977; chairman,
Select Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents
(Ninety-second Congress); lawyer; was a resident of Washington,
D.C., and later, Falls Church, Va., until his death there on July
21, 1994; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington,
Va.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Scott, Hugh D., Jr.
Come to the Party. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,
1968; Scott, Hugh D., Jr. How to Run for Public Office and
Win! Washington, D.C.: National Press, 1968.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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