John Scott
Deceased Person
1822 – 1857
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Who was John Scott?
John Scott was the first mayor of Bytown, later Ottawa, in 1847. He also served a second term as mayor in 1850. He concurrently served in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada representing Bytown from 1848 to 1851.
He was born in Brockville, Ontario in 1822. He studied law in Toronto and was called to the bar in the early 1840s. He came to Bytown to practice law in 1845.
Scott married Nancy Louisa Wright, a granddaughter of Philemon Wright, in 1850.
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