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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1977 Party: Republican
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SCOTT, Hugh Doggett, Jr., a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Fredericksburg,
Spotsylvania County, Va., on November 11, 1900; attended public and private schools; graduated,
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va., 1919 and the law department of the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville 1922; admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Pa.;
during the First World War enrolled in the Student Reserve Offices Training Corps and the Students
Army Training Corps; assistant district attorney of Philadelphia, Pa., 1926-1941; member of the
Governors Commission on Reform of the Magistrates System 1938-1940; during the Second World
War was on active duty for two years with the United States Navy with final rank of commander;
author; vice president of the United States Delegation to the Interparliamentary Union; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3,
1941-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress;
resumed the practice of law; chairman of the Republican National Committee 1948-1949; elected to
the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3,
1959); was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in 1958 to the United States Senate;
reelected in 1964 and 1970 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1977; was not a
candidate for reelection in 1976; Republican whip 1969; minority leader 1969-1977; chairman,
Select Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents (Ninety-second Congress); lawyer; was a
resident of Washington, D.C., and later, Falls Church, Va., until his death there on July 21, 1994;
interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Scott, Hugh D., Jr. Come to the Party. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice-Hall, 1968; Scott, Hugh D., Jr. How to Run for Public Office and Win!
Washington, D.C.: National Press, 1968.
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