Frank D. Scott

Frank Douglas Scott ( born August 25, 1878 in Alpena, Michigan, † February 12, 1951 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American politician in the Republican Party. Between 1915 and 1927 he represented the state of Michigan in the House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Scott attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar he began in Alpena to work in his new profession. In the years 1903 and 1904 he was legal representatives of this community. From 1906 to 1910 he worked as a prosecutor.

Politically, Scott a member of the Republican Party. Between 1911 and 1914 he sat in the Senate of Michigan, he served as Chairman since 1913. In the congressional elections of 1914 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis O. Lindquist on March 4, 1915. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 six legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted. From 1925 to 1927 Scott directed the committee dealing with the Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

1926 Frank Scott was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the following years he remained in the federal capital, Washington, where he worked as a lawyer. He died on February 12, 1951 in Palm Beach and was buried in his birthplace of Alpena.

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