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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn Guier SCOTT
(1819-1892)
SCOTT, John Guier, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December
26, 1819; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from
Bethlehem Academy, Pennsylvania, in civil engineering; moved to
Missouri in 1842; general manager of the Iron Mountain Co. at Iron
Mountain; established the Irondale Iron Co. at Irondale in 1858;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1862 to the
Thirty-eighth Congress; subsequently elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
John W. Noell and served from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865;
engaged in the drug business in St. Louis; resumed mining, and
built furnaces, at Scotia, Crawford County, Mo., in 1868 and at
Nova Scotia a year later; returned in 1870 to St. Louis; moved to
east Tennessee about 1880; died at Oliver Springs, Roane County,
Tenn., May 16, 1892; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St.
Louis, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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