LUCAS, Scott Wike, a Representative and
a Senator from Illinois; born on a farm near Chandlerville, Cass County, Ill.,
February 19, 1892; attended the public schools and graduated from the law
department of Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington in 1914; was admitted
to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice at Havana, Ill.; during the First
World War served as an enlisted man and later as a lieutenant in the United
States Army; State’s attorney of Mason County 1920-1925; chairman of State Tax
Commission 1933-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and
Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); did not seek re-nomination,
having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1938 and reelected in 1944 and served from January 3, 1939, to
January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950; Democratic whip
1947-1949; majority leader 1949-1951; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control
the Contingent Expense (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth Congresses);
engaged in the practice of law in Springfield, Ill., and Washington, D.C.; died
en route to Florida at Rocky Mount, N.C., February 22, 1968; interment in Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Havana, Ill.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; American National Biography;
Schapsmeier, Edward, and Schapsmeier, Frederick. ‘Scott W. Lucas of Havana,
His Rise and Fall as Majority Leader in the United States Senate.’ Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society 70 (November 1977): 302-20.
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