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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1977 Party: Republican
SCOTT, Hugh Doggett, Jr., a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., on November 11, 1900; attended public
and private schools; graduated, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va., 1919 and
the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville 1922;
admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pa.; during
the First World War enrolled in the Student Reserve Offices Training Corps and
the Students Army Training Corps; assistant district attorney of Philadelphia,
Pa., 1926-1941; member of the Governors Commission on Reform of the
Magistrates System 1938-1940; during the Second World War was on active duty
for two years with the United States Navy with final rank of commander; author;
vice president of the United States Delegation to the Interparliamentary Union;
elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the
Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; resumed the
practice of law; chairman of the Republican National Committee 1948-1949;
elected to the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for reelection but was
elected in 1958 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1964 and 1970 and
served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1977; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1976; Republican whip 1969; minority leader 1969-1977; chairman,
Select Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents (Ninety-second Congress);
lawyer; was a resident of Washington, D.C., and later, Falls Church, Va., until
his death there on July 21, 1994; interment in Arlington National Cemetery,
Arlington, Va.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Scott,
Hugh D., Jr.
Come to the Party. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,
1968; Scott, Hugh D., Jr.
How to Run for Public Office and Win! Washington, D.C.:
National Press, 1968.
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