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Delegate and a U.S. Representative from Missouri (1785–1861) For the Missouri state senator, see John E. Scott. For other people named John Scott, see John Scott (disambiguation).

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John Scott
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's at-large district
In office
August 10, 1821 – March 3, 1827
Preceded byHimself (Delegate)
Succeeded byEdward Bates
Delegate to the
U.S. House of Representatives
from the Missouri Territory's
at-large district
In office
August 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byHimself (Representative)
In office
August 6, 1816 – January 13, 1817
Preceded byRufus Easton
Succeeded byHimself
Personal details
Born(1782-05-18)May 18, 1782
Hanover County, Virginia, U.S.
DiedOctober 1, 1861(1861-10-01) (aged 79)
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic-Republican (Before 1824)
National Republican (1824–1834)
RelativesAndrew Scott
EducationPrinceton University (BA)

John Scott (May 18, 1782 – October 1, 1861) was a Delegate and a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1782, Scott moved with his parents to Indiana Territory in 1802. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1805. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, in 1806. He owned slaves. He presented credentials as a Delegate-elect to the Fourteenth Congress from the Territory of Missouri and served from August 6, 1816 to January 13, 1817, when the election was declared illegal and the seat vacant.

Scott was elected as a Delegate to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses and served from August 4, 1817, to March 3, 1821. Upon the admission of Missouri as a State into the Union, Scott was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from August 10, 1821, to March 3, 1827. He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Nineteenth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Ste. Genevieve on October 1, 1861.

Personal life

Scott had a son, Andre J. Scott who went to the California gold fields. His son was made the treasurer for the company of gold miners he fell in with. One of the men, Chas. Orr Baker of Boston, MA asked him to account for a $9 accounting discrepancy. In a fit of alcohol fueled temper, Andre stabbed the man. His fellow miners found him guilty of murder and hanged near Placerville, California April 3, 1851. Andre requested to be shot to spare his father's feelings because of his position in society, but was denied after a vote.

Scott's younger brother, Andrew Scott, also had a proclivity for violence. While serving as a judge in the Arkansas Territory, he is known to have dueled with and killed two men. He was never found guilty of murder.

References

  1. Lives of Eminent Missourians
  2. "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 19, 2022, retrieved July 10, 2022
  3. Hutchings, James Mason (1980). Seeking the Elephant, 1849. The Arthur H. Clark Company.
  4. The Original City of Litle Rock (PDF). Pulaski County Historical Society. 2016. p. 11. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byRufus Easton Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives
from the Missouri Territory's at-large congressional district
1816–1817 		VacantTitle next held byHimself
VacantTitle last held byHimself Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives
from the Missouri Territory's at-large congressional district
1817–1821 		Succeeded byHimselfas U.S. Representative
Preceded byHimselfas U.S. Delegate Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's at-large congressional district
1821–1827 		Succeeded byEdward Bates
Preceded byChristopher Rankin Chair of the House Public Lands Committee
1826–1827 		Succeeded byJacob C. Isacks
Chairs of the United States House Committee on Natural Resources
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