Jock Scott
Politician, Deceased Person
1947 – 2009
Who was Jock Scott?
John Wyeth "Jock" Scott, II was a lawyer and college professor in Alexandria, who served three terms from District 26 in the Louisiana House of Representatives, first as a Democrat and then as a Republican. He was defeated in a race for the Louisiana State Senate in 1987. He also lost two bids for the United States House of Representatives: a 1985 special election, when he ran as a Democrat, and in the 2004 nonpartisan blanket primary for the Fifth Congressional District, when he challenged fellow Republican U.S. Representative Rodney Alexander of Quitman in Jackson Parish.
Scott was born in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana, to Nauman Steele Scott, II, and Blanche Hammond Scott. He graduated from Bolton High School in Alexandria in 1965. One of his classmates was another future Louisiana state legislator, Charles W. DeWitt, Jr., from neighboring District 25. The two were House colleagues from 1980-1988. DeWitt, later Speaker of the Louisiana House, said that Scott always worked for the betterment of the public, not for his personal financial gain.
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- Born
- Jun 29, 1947
Alexandria - Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Tulane University
- Louisiana State University
- Bolton High School
- Lived in
- Alexandria
- Louisiana
- Died
- Apr 25, 2009
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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