Hugh Scott served as Senate Minority Leader from 1969 to 1977.
47 Facts About Hugh Scott
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Hugh Scott was appointed as Philadelphia's assistant district attorney in 1926 and remained in that position until 1941.
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Hugh Scott won election to represent Northwest Philadelphia in the House of Representatives in 1940.
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Hugh Scott lost re-election in 1944 but won his seat back in 1946 and served in the House until 1959.
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Hugh Scott established a reputation as an internationalist and moderate Republican Congressman.
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Hugh Scott served as Dwight Eisenhower's campaign chairman in the 1952 presidential election.
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Hugh Scott was a strong advocate for civil rights legislation and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,1960,1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the US Supreme Court.
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Hugh Scott won election as Senate Minority Whip in January 1969 and was elevated to Senate Minority Leader after Everett Dirksen's death later that year.
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Hugh Scott declined to seek another term in 1976 and retired in 1977.
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The son of Hugh Doggett and Jane Lee Scott, Hugh Doggett Scott was born on an estate in Fredericksburg, Virginia, that was once owned by George Washington.
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Hugh Scott's grandfather served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War under General John Hunt Morgan, and his great-grandmother was the niece of President Zachary Taylor.
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In 1922, Hugh Scott earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law at Charlottesville, where he was a member of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.
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Hugh Scott was admitted to the bar in 1922 and then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he joined his uncle's law firm.
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Hugh Scott, who had become a regular worker for the Republican Party, was appointed assistant district attorney of Philadelphia in 1926 and served in that position until 1941.
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Hugh Scott claimed to have prosecuted more than 20,000 cases during his tenure.
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In 1940, after longtime Republican incumbent George P Darrow decided to retire, Scott was elected to the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district.
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Hugh Scott defeated Democratic candidate Gilbert Cassidy by a margin of 3,362 votes.
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In 1944, Hugh Scott was defeated for re-election by Democrat Herb McGlinchey, losing by only 2,329 votes.
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Hugh Scott served during World War II, and was posted to both Iceland with the Atlantic Fleet and the USS New Mexico with the United States Pacific Fleet.
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Hugh Scott was among US forces that entered Japan on the first day of post-war occupation, and was discharged with the rank of commander.
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In 1946, Hugh Scott reclaimed his House seat, handily defeating McGlinchey by a margin of more than 23,000 vote by speaking out against both President Franklin Roosevelt's "betrayal at Yalta" and communists in Washington, DC.
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Hugh Scott was reelected five times, and served until winning election to the US Senate.
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Hugh Scott earned a reputation as a moderate Republican by supporting public housing, rent control, and the abolition of the poll tax as well as other legislation sought by the Civil Rights Movement.
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Hugh Scott later served as campaign chairman for Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.
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In 1958, after fellow Republican Edward Martin declined to run for re-election, Hugh Scott was elected to the US Senate.
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Hugh Scott narrowly defeated his Democratic opponent, Governor George M Leader, by a margin of 51 to 48 percent.
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Hugh Scott continued his progressive voting record in the Senate by opposing President Eisenhower's veto of a housing bill in 1959 and a redevelopment bill in 1960.
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Hugh Scott voted to end segregationist Democratic senators' filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, and he later sponsored 12 bills to implement the recommendations of the Civil Rights Commission.
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In 1962, Scott threatened to run for Governor of Pennsylvania if the Republican Party did not nominate the moderate Representative William W Scranton over the more conservative Judge Robert E Woodside, a former Pennsylvania Attorney General.
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Hugh Scott even supported Scranton as a more liberal alternative to conservative Senator Barry Goldwater for the Republican nomination in the 1964 presidential election.
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Hugh Scott faced re-election in 1964 and overcame the national landslide for Democratic President Lyndon Johnson to defeat the state Secretary of Internal Affairs, Democrat Genevieve Blatt, by approximately 70,000 votes.
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Hugh Scott voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
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In 1966, along with two other Republican Senators and five Republican Representatives, Hugh Scott signed a telegram sent to Georgia Governor Carl Sanders on the Georgia legislature's refusal to seat the recently elected Julian Bond in its state House of Representatives.
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Hugh Scott supported New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller for the Republican nomination in the 1968 presidential election.
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Hugh Scott was re-elected in 1970, defeating Democratic State Senator William Sesler by a margin of 51 to 45 percent.
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Hugh Scott served until January 3,1977 and was elected Senate Minority Whip in January 1969.
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On September 24, Hugh Scott was narrowly elected Senate Minority Leader over Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, serving until 1977.
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In 1967, Hugh Scott held a Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford, where he contributed regularly to Alan Montefiore's politics seminar for postgraduates.
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Hugh Scott was Chairman of the Select Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents.
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Hugh Scott was displeased with the Nixon administration and believed that it was aloof, unapproachable, and contemptuous of him.
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Hugh Scott believed that he would be given a major role in setting administration policy but was disappointed when that did not occur.
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Actively assisting in the behind-the-scenes transition from the Nixon administration to the Ford administration in the months leading up to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, Hugh Scott sought assurance from Gerald Ford that Hugh Scott would be able to address Ford as "Jerry" even after Ford became President.
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Hugh Scott was one of the three Republican leaders in Congress to meet Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House to tell Nixon that he had lost support of the party in Congress, on August 7,1974.
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Hugh Scott acknowledged having received $45,000 but claimed that they were legal campaign contributions.
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Hugh Scott did not run for re-election in 1976 and was succeeded by Republican John Heinz.
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Hugh Scott was a resident of Washington, DC, and then Falls Church, Virginia, until his death there in 1994.
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Hugh Scott's papers are held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.