He held local political offices before his election to the Mississippi State Senate.

Abram Marshall Scott was born in 1785 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.

He migrated to Wilkinson County, Mississippi early in his life, where he would serve as a tax collector.

Like other southern states, Mississippi did not support South Carolina's actions, defusing the crisis.

He served until he died on June 12, 1833, due to a cholera epidemic in Jackson, and was succeeded by Charles Lynch.