Owen Scott

Owen Scott ( born July 6, 1848 Effingham County, Illinois, † December 21, 1928 in Decatur, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Owen Scott attended the common schools and a private school in Kinmundy. After he graduated from the State Normal School in Normal. He then worked as a teacher. Between 1873 and 1881 Scott was in Effingham County Board of Education. After a simultaneous study of law and its 1873 made ​​admission to the bar he began to practice in this profession in Effingham. From 1881 he also worked in the newspaper industry. He was at that time the newspaper out Effingham Democrat. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1882 he became mayor of Effingham; in the years 1883 and 1884 he was legal adviser to the city. In 1884 he moved to Bloomington, where he continued to work in the newspaper business and a day and a weekly newspaper published. Between 1885 and 1889, he was deputy director of the federal tax authorities in his homeland. In 1888, he led the regional Congress of Democrats for Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Scott was in the 14th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jonathan H. Rowell on March 4, 1891. Since he has not been confirmed in 1892, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893. In 1899, Scott moved to Decatur, where he was manager of the Decatur Herald newspaper until 1904. After that he worked until 1921 in the insurance industry. Since 1921 he was secretary of Masonic Lodge of Illinois ( Secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois). A post he held until his death on December 21, 1928 in Decatur.