Scott Leavitt

Infobox_Congressman
name=Scott Leavitt


state=Montana
district=2nd
term=1923-1933
preceded=Carl W. Riddick
succeeded=Roy E. Ayers
date of birth=birth date|1879|6|16|df=y
place of birth=Elk Rapids, Michigan]
date of death=death date and age|1966|10|19|1879|6|16|df=y
place of death=Newberg, Oregon
spouse=
profession=school principal, Forest Service ranger
religion=Unknown
party=Republican|

Scott Leavitt (June 16, 1879 - October 19, 1966) was a U.S. Representative from Montana.

Early life

Born in Elk Rapids, Michigan, Leavitt moved with his father to Bellaire, Michigan, in 1881. He attended the public schools and while in high school he enlisted in the Thirty-third Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War. Leavitt served in the campaign at Santiago, Cuba during the war. After the war he attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He moved to Oregon in 1901 and took up a homestead in the Coast Range Mountains near Falls City. There he worked as a school principal in the communities of Falls City, North Yamhill, Dayton, and Lakeview, Oregon from 1901 to 1907. In 1907 Leavitt entered the Forest Service as a ranger at the Fremont National Forest in Oregon, and served in Minnesota and Montana until 1917.

Politics

Leavitt was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1933). He served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to the United States Senate.In 1932 Leavitt served as delegate to the Republican National Convention. He again became connected with the Forest Service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1935. Then from 1936 to 1937 he was Commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans.

Later life

He retired from the Forest Service in 1941 and moved to Newberg, Oregon, where Scott Leavitt died on October 19, 1966. He was interred in Willamette National Cemetery near Portland, Oregon.

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