Scott, Hugh Doggett, Jr. (1900-1994), a Pennsylvania Republican, was minority leader of the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1977. He succeeded Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois after Dirksen’s death. Scott, a liberal Republican, won the post in a close contest with Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Tennessee. Baker was Dirksen’s son-in-law and the choice of conservative Republican senators.
Scott was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College and the University of Virginia School of Law. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1959. He was chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1948 and 1949. Scott was elected to the Senate in 1958 and served there until his retirement in 1977.
