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About Patrick J. Scott
- Patrick J.
- Scott (December 25, 1848 – October 22, 1899) was a lawyer and political figure in Newfoundland.
- He represented St.
- John's West in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1872 to 1882, from 1885 to 1889 and from 1894 to 1897. He was born in St.
- John's and educated at Saint Bonaventure's College.
- He studied law with George James Hogsett and John Little and was admitted to the Newfoundland bar in 1874.
- Scott married Eleanor Margaret Little, the sister of Joseph Ignatius Little, in 1882.
- He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1889 and in 1893 and in an 1890 by-election in St.
- John's East.
- He was elected again in an 1894 by-election held after several Liberals elected in 1893 were forced to resign.
- Scott was named to the Executive Council as receiver general in 1894.
- He was defeated when he chose to run in Placentia and St.
- Mary's in the 1897 general election.
- He died in St.
- John's of heart failure at the age of 50.
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