William Lawrence Scott

William Lawrence Scott

Infobox Officeholder


imagesize=
title=Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania
order=10th
term=1866
predecessor=F. F. Farrar
successor=Orange Noble
term2=1871
title2=Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania
order2=12th
predecessor2=Orange Noble
successor2=Charles M. Reed
term_start3=1885
term_end3=1889
state3=Pennsylvania
district3=27th
predecessor3=Samuel M. Brainerd
successor3=Lewis F. Watson
birth_date=birth date|1828|7|2
birth_place=Washington, D.C.
death_date=death date and age|1891|9|19|1828|7|2
death_place=Newport, Rhode Island
spouse=
alma_mater=Hampden-Sidney Academy
religion=
party=Democratic

William Lawrence Scott (July 2, 1828–September 19, 1891) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. His body is buried at Erie Cemetery.

Family

William L. Scott (grandson of Gustavus Scott) was born in Washington, D.C. to Colonel Robert Scott (U.S. Army), of Virginia, who was detailed to the nation's capital at the time of his son's birth. Scott was orphaned as a boy.

Education

He attended the common schools and Hampden-Sidney Academy in Virginia. He served as a United States House of Representatives Page from 1840 to 1846.

Early employment

He returned to Erie, Pennsylvania with Charles Manning Reed at the end of Reed's term in the U.S. Congress and was employed as a shipping clerk at Reed's lakeside wharves for several years. He then spent some years traveling, working as a peddler, fisherman, and clerk until he was 23 years old.

Commercial career

Scott returned to Erie and became a prosperous land owner, investor, and businessman engaged in shipping, coal mining, iron manufacturing, banking, and railroad construction. One trade at the New York Stock Exchange was said to have earned him $2 million. His fortune was estimated at $15 million. He served as president of a number of railroad companies, including the New York, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk Railroad and the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.

Horse breeding

Scott was prominent in horse breeding and racing throughout his life.

In June 1883, Scott bought the 2,650 acre Hollywood Farm on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia from the heirs of the late Governor Littleton Tazewell for $55,000. His purchase included the Tazewell house which became forever known as the Scott House after he renovated and enlarged it in 1886. Scott bought the land primarily to establish a terminus, a harbor and a town for the services of his railroad, the New York, Pennsylvania and Norfolk. Scott immediately deeded part of his 2,650 acre purchase to the railroad and the following year, in 1884, he laid out the Town of Cape Charles, Virginia on 135 acres.

As a member of Congress and a close friend of President Grover Cleveland, Scott did a great deal of entertaining at Scott House, which overlooked Old Plantation Creek. Scott had a passion for race horses and his farm had facilities, including a one-mile race track, to breed and winter 35 northern-owned race horses. [ [http://www.bay-creek.com/article_20050713.asp Danes, Ceri Larson, Old Things Are New Again, Eastern Shore News, 13 July 2005, as seen at Bay Creek Resort and Club website] ]

He established the Algeria Stock Farm in Erie, purchasing for $30,000 the French champion Rayon d'Or (named the leading sire in North America in 1889) and a stock of high bred brood mares. Scott maintained a farm for yearlings in St. Charles, Maryland. Scott's horse Chaos won the Futurity Stakes (USA) in 1889. Scott was a stockholder and member of the board of the Coney Island, Monmouth, and Brooklyn Jockey Clubs.

Political career

Scott was elected mayor of Erie in 1866 and again in 1871. He served as a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1884, and was appointed again in 1886. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868, 1876, 1880, and 1888. Scott was considered a possible choice for United States Secretary of the Treasury under Grover Cleveland. [Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate, 23 Feb 1887]

Scott was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy during the Fiftieth Congress. He was renominated in 1888 and again in 1890 but each time declined to be a candidate due to his health.

References

* New York Times obituary, 21 September 1891

External links

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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott9.html The Political Graveyard]
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