John Scott (representative)

John Scott ( * December 25, 1784 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, † September 22, 1850 in Alexandria, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1806, John Scott moved to Alexandria, where he worked as a tanner and shoemaker. During the British -American War, he was a Major in the American armed forces. From 1819 to 1820 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Scott was in the twelfth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Mitchell on March 4, 1829. Since he has not been confirmed in 1830, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1831. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Scott took until 1842 its previous activities on again. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 22 September 1850 in Alexandria, where he was also buried. His son John (1824-1896) was a U.S. Senator. Meanwhile, younger brother George (1829-1903) competed among others in 1868 unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Florida.