Scott Loftin

Scott Loftin

Scott Marion Loftin (born September 14, 1878 in Montgomery , Alabama , †  September 22, 1953 in Highlands , North Carolina ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Florida for a short time in the US Senate .

Alabama-born Scott Loftin moved his parents to Florida in 1887, where the family settled in Pensacola . He attended public schools and later Washington and Lee University in Lexington ; then he studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1889 and began practicing law in Pensacola.

His political career began in the Florida House of Representatives , to which he was a member from 1903 to 1905. Loftin then served as the Escambia County prosecutor from 1904 to 1917 , before moving to Jacksonville , where he worked as a freelance lawyer again. In 1934 he was a member of the advisory board of the Florida Attorney General ; that same year he became president of the American Bar Association . Between 1931 and 1941 he was the legal counsel and bankruptcy administrator of the Florida East Coast Railway . Subsequently, until his death, he was the judicially appointed trustee of the railway company that was being reorganized. He also worked for other transport companies and eventually became a businessman himself in the railroad and shipping industry as well as in the newspaper industry.

After the death of US Senator Park Trammell , Scott Loftin was appointed his successor in Congress on May 26, 1936 by Governor David Sholtz . He stayed there until November 3, 1936, when he was replaced by Charles O. Andrews , who won the by-election . Loftin had not applied for the mandate and subsequently worked as a lawyer again.

Web links

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

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