Scott Field (Texas politician)

Scott Field ( born January 26, 1847 in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi, † December 20, 1931 in Calvert, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Scott Field visited the McKee School in Madison County. Later he took despite his youth as a soldier in the army of the Confederacy part in the civil war. After the war he studied until 1868 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He then worked for two years as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1872 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Calvert to work in this profession. From 1878 to 1882 he was a prosecutor in the local Robertson County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1887 and 1891 he was a member of the Senate of Texas. In 1892, Field was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the former President Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1902 Field was in the sixth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Dudley G. Wooten on March 4, 1903. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907 two legislative sessions. In 1906 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Field practiced first as a lawyer again. In 1913 he gave up this profession to work intensively in agriculture. He died on December 20, 1931 in Calvert, where he was also buried.