William Lloyd Scott (July 1, 1915 - February 14, 1997) was a Republican politician from Virginia. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, and was the first post-Reconstruction Republican Senator in Virginia.
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William L. Scott was born in Williamsburg, Virginia on July 1, 1915. He graduated from high school in St. Louis. Albans, West Virginia, and started a career at the Government Printing Office. She received LL.B. from the National University School of Law (now George Washington University Law School) in 1938 and LL.M. in 1939. Scott was accepted at the bar, and was hired as a trial lawyer at the Justice Department until 1966.
Scott served in the United States Army during World War II, registering as a Personal in April 1945, and receiving his return the same year as a result of the end of the war. He was then active in the American Legion.
He was involved in the practice of private law in Fairfax, Virginia from 1961 to 1966. In 1963 and 1965 he was unsuccessful in the Virginia State Senate. In 1965 he initially seemed to win, but a recount showed that he lost by 21 votes.
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Scott won the Republican nomination for the 8th congressional district in Virginia in 1966. He is expected to face the Chairman of the 18-month House Leadership Committee Howard W. Smith, a conservative Democrat, but Smith lost his renomination to a more liberal Democrat, State Delegate George Rawlings. With the support of conservative Democrats as well as Republicans, Scott easily defeated Rawlings in November. He was easily re-elected twice, and served from January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1973.
United States Senate
In 1972, Scott won a Republican nomination for the United States Senate and defeated the incumbent Democrat William B. Spong, Jr. in a close race, making Scott the first Republican Senator from Virginia since Reconstruction. Scott got a fortune from the landslide victory of Richard Nixon in the presidential election that year, with Nixon winning Virginia with almost 38 points and taking all but one from the state.
Scott served one term, January 3, 1973 to January 1, 1979. He did not run for re-election in 1978, and resigned on January 1, 1979, two days before the end of his term. Scott's resignation allowed the governor of Virginia to appoint the 1978 Senate election winner John Warner to fill the void, giving Warner one day seniority over another Senator elected in 1978.
Retirement and death
In retirement, Scott lived in Fairfax Station, Virginia. In his final years he suffered from Alzheimer's Disease and stayed at the Fairfax care center. Scott died at Fairfax on February 14, 1997, and was buried at Fairfax Memorial Park in Fairfax.
Racism
Scott is often cited as an example of racism in Congress, and some of his words and actions are reported in the media. When criticizing the implementation of the Postal Code postal code program, he was quoted as saying "the only reason we need a zip code is because niggers can not read."
In addition, his name appears in an exposure to the practice of hiring congressional staff as one member who has given "No Black Person" and other similar instructions to the Capitol Hill Placement Bureau.
In addition to his racism, Scott is also thought to have featured anti-Semitism during the Congress. One news report showed that during a job interview, Scott was told that the applicant was a Jew, and replied, "Oh, I have too much here now to hire you."
"Worst Congressman"
A 1974 article at the New Times by Nina Totenberg reported that Scott had topped the list of "The Ten Dumbest Members of Congress".
The critics of Scott cite many examples to support this claim. When briefed by military personnel about missile missiles in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Scott should have said "Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture, I want military stuff." In addition, the 1975 press report on the journey he took to the Middle East states that Scott was a "diplomatic nightmare" who thought the Suez Canal for the Persian Gulf, refused entry to the mosque because it was not a "Christian building", and called on Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin "What is this Gaza thing? I never understand that."
Scott holds a press conference to deny the claims of the New Times story, which has the effect of providing wider circulation allegations and increasing credibility.
In 2000 and afterwards, journalist Harry Stein, who has provided much background information to Totenberg based on Stein's previous article for another publication called Bill Scott's Personal Face, said the article had become "the work of the devil's ax" , and agreed with Scott's judgment when the articles were written by "some of Richmond's left-wing children with an agenda." Stein goes on to say that while Scott is a lucrative target - disliked by his colleagues and staff, and widely deemed incompetent - Stein and his colleagues have done Scott "a disservice" that Stein regretted. (Stein was famous for his liberal political views early in his career, but over time, his politics moved to a more conservative point of view.)
During his ministry in Congress, Scott was also criticized for the excessive expenses incurred during his fact-finding trip abroad.
References
External links
- William L. Scott in the Search of the Mausoleum
- United States Congress. "William L. Scott (id: S000189)". Directory of Biographies of the United States Congress .
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