Background
SCOTT, Robert Eden was born on April 22, 1808 in Virginia, United States, United States. Son of John and Elizabeth (Pickett) Scott.
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Robert Eden SCOTT
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Private school, southern university.
Career
He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1827 and was admitted to the bar at Warrenton, Virginia, in 1829. On March 10, 1831, he married Elizabeth Taylor. After her death, Scott married Ann Morson and, after her death, Heningham Watkins Lyons.
He served as commonwealth’s attorney for Warrenton, and he represented his district in the state legislature during the 1850s. He was elected to the constitutional convention of 1850. He was a Whig and he also operated a small plantation in Warrenton.
In 1861, after being offered, and declining, the position of secretary of the navy in the Lincoln cabinet, Scott attended the Virginia secession convention as a unionist. He voted for secession, however, and also offered Virginia’s final compromise to the nonslaveholding states. He served in the provisional Confederate Congress and was on the Special Committee.
He was a candidate for reelection when he was killed in an accident on May 3, 1862.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
Connections
Spouse Elizabeth Taylor.
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Whig