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| Affiliation | Adams |
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| Name | John Scott |
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Ste. Genevieve, Missouri , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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May 18, 1785
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| Died | October 01, 1861
(76 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 13, 2014 04:50pm |
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| Info | 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.
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