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Senate Years of Service: 1942-1943 Party: Republican
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MLK Library
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SHOTT, Hugh Ike, a Representative and a Senator from West Virginia; born in Staunton, Augusta
County, Va., September 3, 1866; attended the Staunton public schools; apprenticed as a printer;
later became a reporter and editorial writer; moved to Bluefield, W.Va., in 1893; served as a clerk in
the railway mail service in 1895; became publisher and editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph in
1896; postmaster of Bluefield 1903-1912; member of the West Virginia Semicentennial Commission
in 1912 and 1913; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses
(March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 and for
election to the United States Senate in 1936; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in a special election on November 3, 1942, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Matthew M. Neely, and served
from November 18, 1942, to January 3, 1943; was not a candidate for the full term; continued as
editor and publisher of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph until his death in Bluefield, W.Va., October 12,
1953; interment in Monte Vista Cemetery.
BibliographyEgbert, George L., and Ralph E. Shupe, eds.
Good Morning! Excerpts from the Column of that Name Written and Published in The Bluefield
Daily Telegraph, by Hugh Ike Schott, Editor. Bluefield, WV: Daily Telegraph Printing Co.,
1948.
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