Charles L. Scott

Charles L. Scott (1859)

Charles Lewis Scott (born January 23, 1827 in Richmond , Virginia , †  April 30, 1899 at Mount Pleasant , Alabama ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Scott attended public schools in his home country as well as the Richmond Academy . He then studied until 1846 at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg . After a subsequent law degree and his license to practice law in 1847, he began to work in Richmond in this profession. During the gold rush , he moved to California in 1849, where he was also looking for gold. From 1851 he practiced as a lawyer in Sonora . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1854 and 1856 he was a member of the California State Assembly .

In the 1856 congressional election , Scott was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of California , where he succeeded Philemon T. Herbert on March 4, 1857 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war . In 1860 Scott renounced a new congressional candidacy.

During the Civil War he served as a major in the Confederation Army . Between 1869 and 1879 he worked in agriculture in Wilcox County , Alabama. He also worked as a journalist. Between 1868 and 1896 Scott was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions . From 1885 to 1889 he was the successor of Jehu Baker as the American ambassador and consul in Venezuela . Then he worked again in agriculture. He died in Mount Pleasant on April 30, 1899.

Web links

• Charles L. Scott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)