Andrew Scott (judge)
Andrew Horatio Scott (August 6, 1789 – March 13, 1851)[1] was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court for the Arkansas Territory from 1819 until 1825.
Scott was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and "eventually moved to Pope County, Arkansas Territory.[1]
After serving two terms as an Arkansas territorial judge, he failed to receive senate confirmation for a third. He was also a delegate to the first Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1836.[1] He killed Judge Joseph Selden in a duel as well as General Edmund Hogan.[2]
He died at Norristown, Pope County, Arkansas and is buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Russellville. Scott County, Arkansas was named for him.[3][4]
Notes
- ^ a b c Arkansas Courts, A Self-Guided Tour of Justice Building Portraits (2016), p. 9.
- ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (January 6, 1914). "Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ..." American Publishers' Association – via Google Books.
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- ^ McCutchen, Henry Grady (1922). History of Scott County, Arkansas. 22.
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