John Guier Scott
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John Guier Scott was a U.S. Representative
from Missouri
.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, Scott completed preparatory studies.
He was graduated from Bethlehem Academy, Pennsylvania, in civil engineering.
He moved to Missouri in 1842.
He served as general manager of the Iron Mountain Co. at Iron Mountain.
He established the Irondale Iron Co. at Irondale in 1858.
He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.
Scott was subsequently elected as a Democrat
to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W. Noell and served from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865.
He engaged in the drug business in St. Louis.
He resumed mining, and built furnaces, at Scotia, Missouri, in 1868 and at Nova Scotia a year later.
He returned in 1870 to St. Louis.
He moved to east Tennessee about 1880.
He died at Oliver Springs, Tennessee
, May 16, 1892.
He was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
United States House of Representatives
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from Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, Scott completed preparatory studies.
He was graduated from Bethlehem Academy, Pennsylvania, in civil engineering.
He moved to Missouri in 1842.
He served as general manager of the Iron Mountain Co. at Iron Mountain.
He established the Irondale Iron Co. at Irondale in 1858.
He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.
Scott was subsequently elected as a Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W. Noell and served from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865.
He engaged in the drug business in St. Louis.
He resumed mining, and built furnaces, at Scotia, Missouri, in 1868 and at Nova Scotia a year later.
He returned in 1870 to St. Louis.
He moved to east Tennessee about 1880.
He died at Oliver Springs, Tennessee
Oliver Springs, Tennessee
Oliver Springs is a town in Anderson, Morgan, and Roane counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 3,303 at the 2000 census. It is included in the "Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area", which consists of Roane County....
, May 16, 1892.
He was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.