14 Facts About Scott Leavitt

Scott Leavitt was a US Representative from Montana.

Scott Leavitt served as chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs.

Scott Leavitt was born in Elk Rapids, Michigan in 1879 to Roswell Leavitt, an attorney, member of the Maine House of Representatives and later Michigan State Senator, a native of Turner, Maine, where he enlisted in the 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and his wife Anna C Leavitt.

Scott Leavitt moved with his parents in 1881 to Bellaire, Michigan, where his father Roswell served as prosecuting attorney and circuit court commissioner.

Scott Leavitt subsequently moved to Oregon in 1901 and began homesteading in the Coast Range Mountains near Falls City.

In 1907 Scott Leavitt entered the United States Forest Service as a ranger at the Fremont National Forest in Oregon.

Scott Leavitt later served in Minnesota and Montana until 1917.

In 1922, when incumbent United States Congressman Carl W Riddick opted to run for the Senate rather than seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives, Leavitt ran to succeed him in Montana's 2nd congressional district.

Scott Leavitt defeated Preston B Moss, the Democratic nominee, by a wide margin to win his first term, and in 1924, defeated Joseph Kirschwing by a landslide to win his second term.

On March 5,1932, Scott Leavitt took to the floor of the House to deliver a eulogy to Indian Chief Plenty Coups.

Scott Leavitt was a man of such caliber and such high character, and his service was so outstanding, that it is entirely fitting that the American Congress should pause for a moment to do him reverence.

Scott Leavitt won the Republican primary against former State Attorney General Wellington D Rankin, but lost the general election to James E Murray in a landslide.

Scott Leavitt retired from the Forest Service in 1941 and moved to Newberg, Oregon, where Scott Leavitt died on October 19,1966.

Scott Leavitt was interred in Willamette National Cemetery near Portland, Oregon.