“S” is for Scott, Robert Kingston (1826-1900). Governor. A native of Pennsylvania, Scott later moved to Ohio where he obtained a medical degree. During the Civil War he organized the Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteers and eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general. In 1866 he was appointed assistant commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina. Scott reluctantly accepted the Republican nomination for governor in 1868. As governor he urged racial reconciliation and the establishment of segregated schools. In 1868 and 1869 White violence and terror erupted and continued until President Grant dispatched federal troops and suspended the writ of habeas corpus in nine counties. Reelected in 1870, Scott avoided impeachment when several legislators allegedly accepted bribes to defeat the impeachment resolution. In 1878 Robert Kingston Scott returned to Ohio rather than face indictment on charges of corruption.
“S” is for Scott, Robert Kingston (1826-1900)
