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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn SCOTT
(1785-1861)
SCOTT, John, a Delegate
and a Representative from Missouri; born in Hanover County, Va.,
May 18, 1785; moved with his parents to Indiana Territory in 1802;
was graduated from Princeton College in 1805; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.,
in 1806; presented credentials as a Delegate-elect to the
Fourteenth Congress from the Territory of Missouri and served from
August 6, 1816, to January 13, 1817, when the election was declared
illegal and the seat vacant; elected as a Delegate to the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Congresses and served from August 4, 1817, to March
3, 1821; upon the admission of Missouri as a State into the Union
was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected
as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected
as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from
August 10, 1821, to March 3, 1827; chairman, Committee on Public
Lands (Nineteenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress; resumed the practice of law;
died in Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Mo., October 1,
1861.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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