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Hardie Scott (June 7, 1907 – November 2, 1999) was a
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member of the
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from
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. Hardie Scott, son of
John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott (July 6, 1873 – December 9, 1945) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott, father of Hardie Scott, was born in ...
, was born in
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. He graduated from the
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in
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, in 1926, from
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in 1930, and from the
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Law School in 1934. Scott was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1952. In Congress, Scott introduced the bill that authorized the creation of what eventually became
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/ref> Hardie Scott was married to Mrs. MacRoy Jackson (née Almira Geraldine Rockefeller.)


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1907 births 1999 deaths University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Yale University alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 20th-century American politicians People from Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub