David Scott was an American politician who was elected in 1816 as a

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member of the

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to represent

Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district is located in the south-central region of the state. It encompasses all of Dauphin County as well as parts of Cumberland County and York County. The district includes the cities of Harrisburg and York. ...

. Scott resigned from the

Fifteenth In music, a fifteenth or double octave, abbreviated ''15ma'', is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter the wavelength or quadruple the frequency. It has also been referred to as the bisdiapason. The fourth harmonic, ...

Congress before it assembled on December 1, 1817, having been appointed president and judge of the court of common pleas.Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 (GPO, 1989), p. 1780. This entry has been removed from the online Biographical Directory.

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