John Guier Scott (December 26, 1819 – May 16, 1892) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Scott completed preparatory studies. He was graduated from

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, Pennsylvania, in civil engineering. He moved to Missouri in 1842. He served as general manager of the Iron Mountain Co. at Iron Mountain. He established the Irondale Iron Co. at Irondale in 1858. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress. Scott was subsequently elected as a

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to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W. Noell and served from December 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865. He engaged in the drug business in St. Louis. He resumed mining, and built furnaces, at

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, in 1868 and at Nova Scotia a year later. He returned in 1870 to St. Louis. He moved to east Tennessee about 1880. He died at

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, on May 16, 1892, and was interred at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, John Guier 1819 births 1892 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri Politicians from Philadelphia Burials at Bellefontaine Cemetery 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives