Hugh Scott

This article is about the politician, for the US Chief of Staff see Hugh L. Scott

Hugh Scott

Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (* 11. November 1900 in Fredericksburg , Virginia , †  21st July 1994 in Falls Church , Virginia) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the State of Pennsylvania in both houses of Congress represented. He also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee , the party organization of the Republicans , from 1948 to 1949 .

Life

Hugh Scott attended public and private schools in his native Virginia. During World War I he was a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps and later the Students' Army Training Corps . He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland in 1919 and graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1922 , whereupon he was inducted into the bar that same year. He moved to Pennsylvania and began practicing law in Philadelphia .

From 1926 to 1941, Scott served as the Assistant District Attorney for Philadelphia. He also worked from 1938 to 1940 in a political reform commission convened by the governor . During World War II he served as a member of the US Navy for two years and rose to become commander . After returning to civilian life, Scott worked as a writer and was Vice President of the US Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union .

politics

Scott's political career began in 1940 with the election to the United States House of Representatives , which he served as a representative of the Seventh Congressional Constituency of Pennsylvania from January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1945. He missed re-election in 1944 and initially worked as a lawyer again. In 1946 he succeeded in re-entering Congress, where he remained as a representative of the sixth district of Pennsylvania after multiple re-election from January 3, 1947 to January 3, 1959. During this time he was the successor to Brazilla Carroll Reece between 1948 and 1949 also the Republican National Committee before he resigned this post to Guy Gabrielson .

In 1958, Scott decided not to run again as a congressman to instead apply for the vacant seat in the US Senate from Edward Martin . He prevailed against George M. Leader , the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, with 51:48 percent of the vote and took his seat in the Senate from January 3, 1959. As a result, he was confirmed twice by voters. In 1969 he officiated for a few months as a whip of the Republican minority faction before he rose to minority leader in September of the same year as the successor to Everett Dirksen . He held this post until he left the Senate on January 3, 1977. During this time the Watergate affair fell around Richard Nixon , with Scott visiting the president on August 7, 1974, together with Senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona and John Jacob Rhodes , the minority leader of the House of Representatives, to inform him that there were not enough Republican members of Congress would vote against impeachment , which is why his situation is hopeless. Nixon resigned two days later.

Scott did not stand for re-election in 1976. Henry John Heinz III took over his seat . That same year, Scott led the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City . In 1983 he founded the Center for Responsive Politics with his former Senate colleague Frank Church .

After years in Washington, DC , Scott retired to Falls Church, where he died in July 1994. Hugh Scott was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Web links

Commons : Hugh Scott  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

• Hugh Scott in the database of Find a Grave (English)