Scott Ferris

Scott Ferris ( born November 3, 1877 in Neosho, Missouri, † June 8, 1945 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1915 he represented the fifth and 1915-1921 the sixth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Scott Ferris attended the public schools of his home and then to 1897, the Newton County High School. After studying law at Kansas City School of Law and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar he began in Lawton to work in his new profession. Politically, Ferris was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1904 and 1905 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Oklahoma Territory.

After the founding of the State of Oklahoma Scott Ferris was in the fifth district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. This mandate he entered on 16 November, 1907. In the years 1908, 1910 and 1912, he was re-elected each. So that he could represent his district until March 3, 1915 at the Congress. In the 1914 elections he was elected in the sixth district, which he represented as the successor to William H. Murray after two re- elections until March 3, 1921 Congress. There he was in the meantime Chairman of the Committee for the administration of state property. In the years 1912 and 1916 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, on which Woodrow Wilson were each nominated as a presidential candidate.

1920 Ferris renounce a renewed candidacy for the House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After the end of his time in Congress Ferris moved to New York City where he worked in the oil business between 1921 and 1924. In 1925, he returned to Oklahoma. There he worked as a lawyer, in agriculture and in the oil business. From 1924 to 1940 he was a member of the Democratic National Committee. He died in June 1945 in Oklahoma City.