Background
Scott, George Winfield was born on August 25, 1875 in Adams, New York, United States. Son of W. G. and Georgia (Tripp) Scott.
Scott, George Winfield was born on August 25, 1875 in Adams, New York, United States. Son of W. G. and Georgia (Tripp) Scott.
Student Hobart College, 1892-1893. Bachelor of Arts, Stanford, 1896, Cornell, 1896-1898. Fellow University of Chicago, 1899-1900, Columbia, 1900-1901, University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Laws, 1902, Doctor of Philosophy, 1903.
Admitted bar, Pennsylvania, 1902, District of Columbia, 1905, New York, 1907, California, 1917. Instructor international law, University of Pennsylvania, 1901-1903. In Europe for Library of Congress to report on law and documentary literature to be acquired, 1904.
Professor of law, George Washington University, 1905-1906.
Law librarian of Congress and Supreme Court, 1903-1907. Member President Roosevelt’s Commision on Efficiency in Deptl.
Methods, 1905-1908. Professor international law, ad interim, University of Pennsylvania, 1906-1907.
Professor international law and diplomacy, Columbia, 1907-1910. Research assistant Carnegie Institution, 1911-1914.
Engaged in research on international law diplomatic claims for indemnity, 1911-1916. Director of study of Mexican institutions conducted by Edward L. Doheny Research Foundation, associated with University of California.
Member firm Scott & Eberhard, attorneys, Los Los Angeles Organized and directed legislative drafting work first established in Library of Congress, Washington, and later at Columbia University, New New York
Member International Debts Roundtable Institute of Politics, 1927.
Member Phi Beta Kappa (president Alumni Association of Southern California), Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Phi. Club: Wilshire Country (Los Angeles).
Married Clara Hotopp, 1910. Children: Clara, George Winfield.