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| Date Born: July 8, 1826 |
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Date Died: August 12, 1900 |
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| Place Born: Armstrong County, PA |
Place Buried: Henry County, OH |
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| Residence: Henry County, OH |
Occupation: Doctor, Real Estate Speculator, Brigadier General of Volunteers - US Army |
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1870 – The South Carolina Constitution of 1868 lifted
the prohibition on the reelection of a governor until four years
after leaving office, allowing Scott to become the first governor
of South Carolina to be elected to two consecutive terms Scott moved to Ohio when Democrats returned to power in state
government, possibly out of fear of being prosecuted for misuse
of funds during his administration - 1877 Scott, Robert Kingston, soldier, born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, 8 July, 1826. His grandfather fought in the Revolution, and his father in the war of 1812-'15. The son received a good education, studied medicine, and began practice in Henry County, Ohio. In October, 1861, he became lieutenant-colonel of the 68th Ohio regiment, of which he was made colonel in 1862. He served at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Corinth, led a brigade at Hatchie River, Tennessee, commanded the advance of General John A. Logan's division on the march into Mississippi, and was engaged at Port Gibson, Raymond, and Champion Hills. He was afterward at the head of a brigade in the 17th corps, was made prisoner near Atlanta, but was exchanged on 24 September, 1864, and was in Sherman's operations before that city and in the march to the sea. He was commissioned Brigadier General of Volunteers, 12 January, 1865, and also received the brevets of brigadier and major-general in the volunteer army, to date from 26 January and 2 December, 1865, respectively. General Scott was assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina in 1865-'8, resigned from the Army on 6 July of the latter year, and in 1868 became the first governor of the reconstructed state, having been chosen as a Republican. He was re-elected in 1870 by a majority of 33,534 in a total vote of 136,608. In the autumn of 1871 the governor and other state officers were openly charged with a fraudulent over-issue of state bonds. Governor Scott justified his course in a message to the legislature, and a resolution of impeachment was defeated in that body. Much excitement was also caused in this year by " Ku-klux" outrages, and Governor Scott's appeal to the president to aid in suppressing them, which was done by the use of United States troops. Governor Scott afterward removed to Napoleon, Ohio. On 25 December, 1880, he shot and killed Warren G. Drury, aged twenty-three years. Drury and a son of General Scott had been drinking together, and while searching for the boy General Scott met the former, when the shooting took place. He was tried, and acquitted on 5 November, 1881, the defense being that the discharge of the pistol was accidental. |
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