Andrew Scott (judge)
Andrew Horatio Scott (August 6, 1789 – March 13, 1851) was an American lawyer and politician. Scott was born in Hanover County, Virginia. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court for the Arkansas Territory from 1819 until 1825.
He killed judge Joseph Selden in a duel as well as General Edward Hogsn.[1]
He died at Norristown, Pope County, Arkansas and is buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Russellville. Scott County, Arkansas was named for him.[2][3]
Notes[]
- ^ 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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