Hugh Scott

Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr. ( born November 11, 1900 in Fredericksburg, Virginia; † July 21, 1994 in Falls Church, Virginia ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Pennsylvania in both houses of Congress. He also served from 1948 to 1949 as chairman of the Republican National Committee, the party organization of the Republicans.

Life

Hugh Scott attended public and private schools in his native Virginia. During the First World War he was a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps and later the Students' Army Training Corps. He received his first degree in 1919 at Randolph -Macon College in Ashland and was in 1922 his law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, whereupon he was admitted in the same year in the Bar Association. He moved to Pennsylvania and started practicing as a lawyer in Philadelphia.

From 1926 to 1941 Scott served as deputy district attorney of Philadelphia. He also worked from 1938 to 1940 at a meeting convened by the governor political reform Commission. During World War II he served for two years as a member of the U.S. Navy and rose to become Commander. After returning to civilian life Scott worked as a writer and was Vice President of the U.S. delegation to the Interparliamentary Union.

Policy

Scott's political career began in 1940 with the election into the House of Representatives of the United States, where he served as a representative of the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania dated January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1945. He missed the 1944 re-election and worked again as a lawyer. In 1946 he succeeded in re- entry into the Congress, where he remained as Repräsentantant of the sixth district of Pennsylvania after repeated re-election of January 3, 1947 to January 3, 1959. During this time he also became the Republican National Committee as successor of Brazilla Carroll Reece 1948-1949, before he relinquished this post to Guy Gabrielson.

1958 Scott waived on a bid again as a Congressman to instead apply for the vacant seat in the U.S. Senate by Edward Martin. He sat down against George M. Leader, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, with almost 51:48 percent of the vote through and took his seat in the Senate from January 3, 1959 true. As a result, it was confirmed twice by the voters. In 1969 he officiated for several months as the Republican Whip minority faction before he rose in September of the same year as the successor of Everett Dirksen for Minority Leader. He held until his retirement from the Senate on January 3, 1977 This post. In this period, the Watergate affair fell by Richard Nixon, with Scott visited on August 7, 1974 together with Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and John Jacob Rhodes, the Minority Leader of the House, the President, to tell it that not enough Republican members of Congress would vote against impeachment, which is why his situation was hopeless. Nixon resigned two days later.

Scott left in 1976 not to seek re-election that was connected with a possible indictment against him for accepting bribes by an oil development company. In the same year he led the delegation Pennsylvania to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City. He spent his retirement in Washington, D.C. and in Falls Church, where he died in July 1994. Hugh Scott was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.