Scott, Charles L
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1827, in Richmond, Va. In 1856 he was elected a representative from California to the thirty-fifth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-sixth congress. left his seat in congress in March, 1861, and went to Alabama, where he enlisted in the confederate army, and was elected major of his regiment. In 1877 he removed to Monroe county, Ala., and engaged in planting. In 1881 he resumed the practice of his profession at Monroeville, Ala.; and in 1885 was appointed United States minister to Venezuela.