Robert Eden Scott

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Robert Eden Scott
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from the Fauquier County, Virginia district
In office
December 2, 1839 – December 4, 1842
Preceded byElias Edmunds
Succeeded byWilliam R. Smith
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from the Fauquier County, Virginia district
In office
December 1, 1845 – December 3, 1849
Preceded byElias Edmunds
Succeeded byWilliam M. Hume
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from the Fauquier County, Virginia district
In office
January 12, 1850 – June 7, 1852
Preceded bySamuel J. Tabbs
Succeeded byWellington Gordon
Personal details
Born(1808-04-23)April 23, 1808
Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia
DiedMay 3, 1862(1862-05-03) (aged 54)
Warrenton, Virginia
Political partyWhig
ChildrenR. Taylor Scott
ProfessionLawyer, politician
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States

Robert Eden Scott (April 23, 1808 – May 3, 1862) was a

Provisional Confederate Congress
, until his death at the hands of Union Army deserters while defending his farm.

Early and family life

Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1808 to "Judge" John Scott and his wife Elizabeth Pickett, Robert Eden Scott was the grandson of Episcopal priest Rev. John Scott, who supported independence in the American Revolutionary War. Robert E. Scott survived three wives. On March 10, 1831, he married Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Alexandria lawyer Robert L. Taylor.[1] Their son R. Taylor Scott was a Virginia lawyer, served in the Confederate States Army in the Civil War, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was Attorney General of Virginia.[citation needed] His daughter Josephine married Tazewell Ellett.[2]

Career

Scott, a prominent

Provisional Confederate Congress
from 1861 to 1862.

The

fire eaters" as well as for publicly predicting that secession would end in ruin.[7]

Despite not personally fighting for the Confederacy, Scott was killed by Union deserters when he confronted them for abusing his land.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, 1915, available online
  2. Archive.org.Open access icon
  3. ^ Eppa Hunton Autobiography p. 14, available at https://archive.org/stream/autobiographyofe00hunt/autobiographyofe00hunt_djvu.txt
  4. ^ Cynthia Miller Leonard, Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 392, 396, 400, 416, 421, 425, 431, 441, 443, 449, 475
  5. ^ "How Virginia Convention delegates voted on secession, April 4 and April 17…" (PDF). Union or Secession. Library of Virginia. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  6. ^ slave schedule in 1860 U.S. Federal Census for Southwest Revenue District, Fauquier County Virginia
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-1-108-05060-9
    .
  8. ^ "Political Graveyard: Scott, O to R". PoliticalGraveyard.com. Lawrence Kestenbaum. Retrieved 7 April 2015.


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