John Scott (politician, 1785)

John Scott (born May 18, 1785 in Hanover County , Virginia , †  October 1, 1861 in Sainte Genevieve , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1816 and 1827 he first represented the Missouri Territory as a delegate and from 1821 as a member of the State of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1802, John Scott came to the Indiana Territory with his parents . He then studied at Princeton College until 1805 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1806, he began to work in this profession in Sainte Genevieve in what would later become the state of Missouri. Between August 6, 1816 and January 13, 1817, Scott was a Missouri Territory delegate to Congress in Washington . After an objection to the election, the mandate was declared vacant. After Scott was re-elected as a congressional delegate, he was able to exercise the mandate between August 4, 1817 and March 3, 1821.

After Missouri joined the Union, Scott was elected as a candidate for the Democratic Republican Party in the first and then only constituency of the new state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new office on August 10, 1821. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1827. Within his party, he joined the movement around President John Quincy Adams , who stood in opposition to the faction around his successor Andrew Jackson . From 1825 to 1827 he was chairman of the committee for the management of state properties.

In the congressional election of 1826 , John Scott lost to Edward Bates . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he withdrew from politics. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He died in Sainte Genevieve on October 1, 1861.

According to him, Scott County named in Missouri.

Web links

• John Scott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)