SCOTT, John, senator, born in Alexandria, Pennsylvania, 14 July, 1824. His father, of the same name, was manufacturer and landholder in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and a member of congress in 1829-'31. The son received a common-school education, pursued a classical course with private tutors, and then studied law in Chambersburg, was admitted to the bar in 1846, and practised in Huntingdon. He was prosecuting attorney in 1846-'9, and a member of the board of revenue commissioners in 1851, served in the legislature in 1862, and from 1869 till 1875 sat in the United States senate, having been chosen as a Republican. In the senate, Mr. Scott, on 17 May, 1872, moved the "enforcement bill," authorizing the president to suspend the habeas corpus act in states where " Ku klux" outrages should occur, and made a speech in its favor. On the expiration of his senatorial term he removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and became general counsel of the Pennsylvania company, and subsequently he was made general solicitor of tile Pennsylvania railroad company in Philadelphia.