Scott Lord

Scott Lord ( born December 11, 1820 Nelson, New York, † September 10, 1885 in Morris Plains, New Jersey) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Scott Lord was born about five years after the end of the British - American War in Madison County. Lord visited community schools and the local academies in Morrisville and Geneseo. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1842, he began practicing in Mount Morris in Livingston County. In 1847 he moved to Geneseo. He was 1847-1856 judge in Livingston County. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In 1872 he moved to Utica in Oneida County, where he continued to work as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1874 for the 44th Congress he was on the 23rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William E. Lansing on March 4, 1875. In 1876 he suffered in his re-election bid for the 45th Congress defeat and had to retire after March 3, 1877 the Congress of. During his time, the U.S. Congress House of Representatives appointed him to one of the conductors who conducted impeachment proceedings against the Secretary of War William W. Belknap.

In 1877 he moved to New York City where he worked as a lawyer again. He died on September 10, 1885 in Morris Plains and was then buried in the Temple Hill Cemetery in Geneseo.