Senator William Hugh Scott View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 6/9/1969

Birth Place: West Union, Iowa

Birth County: Fayette

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
Senate: 38 (1919) - 39 (1921)

Home County: Chickasaw

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Brother: George L. Scott; GAs 46 - 50; 55 - 60

William Hugh Scott

Chickasaw County

WILLIAM H. SCOTT

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable William H. Scott, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

William H. Scott was born at West Union, Iowa, on October 4, 1883, the son of Alexander and Margaret Scott, pioneer farmers. He died on June 9, 1969.

He was graduated from high school in West Union and from Upper Iowa College at Fayette. After college he served as superintendent of schools for a period of five years in North Dakota. He then returned to Iowa and was graduated from the Drake University Law School in June of 1915. Immediately after graduation he opened a law office at Nashua and was elected mayor of the town. He maintained his Nashua law office until 1967.

He was married to Ada Heckel in 1909, and to them was born one son, Everett Greig. Ada Heckel Scott passed away in 1955. In 1956 Mr. Scott married Minnie Camp who is his surviving widow.

Mr. Scott, a Republican, was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1918 from Chickasaw and Floyd Counties and served one term.

He was a member of the Masonic Order for over fifty years. He was counsel for the Chickasaw County draft board during World War II and for several years thereafter.

Surviving Mr. Scott are his widow, Minnie Camp Scott, and his son, Everett Greig Scott, of Waterloo, Iowa.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Iowa: That in the passing of the Honorable William H. Scott, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the Senate by this resolution would express its appreciation of his service, and tender its sympathy to the members of his family.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

VERNON H. KYHL, Chairman

LEIGH R. CURRAN

LESLIE C. KLINK

Committee

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

Senate District 44