Byron N. Scott

Byron Nicholson Scott (born March 21, 1903 in Council Grove , Kansas , †  December 21, 1991 in Sun City , now Menifee , California ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Byron Scott attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1924 at the University of Kansas at Lawrence . He then attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles until 1930 . In between he was a teacher in Tucson ( Arizona ) from 1924 to 1926 . From 1926 he lived in Long Beach , where he worked again as a teacher until 1934. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1934 and 1940 he took part as a delegate at their regional party conventions in California. In June 1936 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , on which US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for re-election.

In the 1934 congressional election , Scott was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 18th  electoral district of California , where he succeeded John H. Burke on January 3, 1935 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1939 . During this time the other New Deal laws of the federal government under President Roosevelt were passed there. In 1938 Scott was defeated by Republican Thomas M. Eaton . Two years later, he tried unsuccessfully to return to Congress.

In 1939 and 1940 he was secretary of the California Highway Committee. He then worked in the construction industry until 1942. During the Second World War Scott worked for the War Production Board , the authority responsible for war production in the federal capital Washington. After studying law at National University and being admitted to the bar in 1949, he began working in this profession in Washington. He held this position until 1979. He then retired, which he spent in Sun City, where he died on December 21, 1991.

Web links

• Byron N. Scott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)