Lon A. Scott
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Lon Allen Scott was an American
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 politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives
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 for the 8th congressional district
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 of Tennessee
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Biography

He was born on September 25, 1888 on a farm near Cypress Inn in Wayne County, Tennessee
Wayne County, Tennessee
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. He moved with his parents to Savannah, Tennessee
Savannah, Tennessee
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 in Hardin County
Hardin County, Tennessee
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. He attended the public schools and Savannah (Tennessee) Institute. He graduated from the law department of Cumberland University
Cumberland University
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 in Lebanon, Tennessee
Lebanon, Tennessee
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 in 1915. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and the estate and lumber business.

Lon Scott was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Tennessee House of Representatives
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 from 1913 to 1917. He served as the minority floor leader in 1915 and 1917. He represented Tennessee in the prosecution of Attorney General Estes in an impeachment proceeding before the Tennessee Senate
Tennessee Senate
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. He resigned as a state representative, enlisted as a private
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 during the First World War, and was later promoted to a lieutenancy
Lieutenant
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He was elected as a Republican
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 to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He served from March 4, 1921 to March 3, 1923, and he was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress. He resumed his former business pursuits and resided in Savannah, Tennessee until his death there on February 11, 1931. He was interred
Burial
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in Savannah Cemetery.

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