Edward Scull

Edward Scull (February 5, 1818 – July 10, 1900) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Edward Scull was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and pursued an academic course. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He moved to Somerset, Pennsylvania, in 1846 and practiced law until 1857. He served as prothonotary and clerk of the court for three years.

He was appointed collector of internal revenue by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. He was removed by President Andrew Johnson in September 1866. He served as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1864, 1876, and 1884. He was appointed assessor of internal revenue by President Ulysses S. Grant in April 1869, and again appointed collector, on March 22, 1873, and served until August 1883, when the district was consolidated with another. He published and edited the Somerset Herald from 1852 to 1887.

Scull was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses. After his time in congress, he retired to Somerset. He died in Somerset, and is buried in Union Cemetery.

Sources

• Edward Scull at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard