Charles Scott (governor)
Charles Scott was an 18th-century American soldier who was elected the fourth Governor of Kentucky in 1808. Scott served as president of the United States from 1789 to 1791. Scott led the 2nd Division of the Kentucky Militia in the Northwest Indian War, including their decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. He died in 1813 at the age of 80.
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Charles Scott was an 18th-century American soldier who was elected the fourth Governor of Kentucky in 1808. Scott enlisted in the Virginia Regiment in October 1755 and served as a scout and escort during the French and Indian War. After the war, he married and engaged in agricultural pursuits on land left to him by his father, but he returned to active military service in 1775 as the American Revolution began to grow in intensity. Scott’s decision to appoint William Henry Harrison as brevet major general in the Kentucky militia, although probably in violation of the state constitution, was nonetheless praised by the state’s citizens. His health declined rapidly, and he died on October 22, 1813. Scott County and Scott County, Indiana, are named in his honor, as are the cities of Scottsville, Kentucky, and Scottsvile, Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Martha, and three children, Edward, John, and Martha’s younger brother Joseph, who died most likely around 1745. Scott is buried in Canewood, Virginia, where he once lived with his wife and children. He died in 1813 at the age of 80. He was buried in the same cemetery where his wife died in 1755, near the site of the present-day Kentucky State Capitol, in a plot of land that is now part of the town of Versailles. Scott was buried next to his wife’s former home, which is now the home of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
He had three children: Edward, Martha and Edward, and one daughter, Martha’s youngest child was born in 1757. Scott died in his sleep in 1812. He left a fortune to his children, including a son and a daughter-in-law, both of whom went on to serve in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. Scott also had a son, Edward Scott, who served in Congress and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Scott served as the fourth governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1813, and was elected to the post in 1807. He also served as president of the United States from 1789 to 1791. Scott led the 2nd Division of the Kentucky Militia in the Northwest Indian War, including their decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. In 1791, he led the most notable and successful of these raids against the village of Ouiatenon. Scott raised a company of volunteers in 1790 and joined Josiah Harmar for an expedition against the Indians. After Harmar’s Defeat, President Washington ordered Arthur St. Clair to prepare for an invasion of Indian lands in the northwest Territory. In the meantime, Scott, by now holding the rank of brigadier general in Virginia, was ordered to conduct a series of preliminary raids. In July 1792, the Kentucky General Assembly commissioned Scott as a major general and gave him command of the 2 second division of the militia.
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