Scott Loftin

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Scott Marion Loftin

United States Senator from Florida
In office May 26, 1936 – November 3, 1936
Preceded by	Park Trammell
Succeeded by	Charles O. Andrews
Personal details
Born	(1878-09-14)September 14, 1878 Montgomery, Alabama
Died	September 22, 1953(1953-09-22) (aged 75) Highlands, North Carolina
Political party	Democratic

Scott Marion Loftin (September 14, 1878 – September 22, 1953) was a U.S. Senator from Florida who served as a Democrat in 1936.

Born in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; moved to Pensacola, Florida, with his parents in 1887; attended the public schools and Washington and Lee University School of Law at Lexington, Virginia; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Pensacola, Fla.; member of the Florida House of Representatives 1903-1905; prosecuting attorney of Escambia County, Florida 1904-1917; moved to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1917 to continue the practice of law; member of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Crime 1934; president of the American Bar Association 1934; general counsel for the Florida East Coast Railway 1931-1941 and for a variety of other transportation-related businesses; businessman with interests in railroads, shipping, and newspapers; appointed on May 26, 1936, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Park Trammell and served from May 26 to November 3, 1936, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy; resumed the practice of law in Jacksonville, Fla., until his death in Highlands, North Carolina; interment in Oaklawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.

United States Senate
Preceded by Park Trammell	United States Senator (Class 1) from Florida 1936	Succeeded by Charles O. Andrews

v t e United States Senators from Florida

Class 1	Yulee Mallory, Sr. Welch Gilbert Jones Pasco Taliaferro N. Bryan Trammell Loftin Andrews Holland Chiles Mack Nelson

Class 3	Westcott Morton Yulee Osborn Conover Call Mallory, Jr. W. Bryan Milton Fletcher Hill Pepper Smathers Gurney Stone Hawkins Graham Martinez LeMieux Rubio

Scott Loftin at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 21140202 LCCN: n85336723

Persondata
Name	Loftin, Scott
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	September 14, 1878
Place of birth	Montgomery, Alabama
Date of death	September 22, 1953
Place of death	Highlands, North Carolina

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