He owned a bakery business, and was a city councillor in Winnipeg before entering provincial politics.
He was more fortunate in the 1953 election,[2] defeating independent candidate Lewis Stubbs by over 500 votes to win the fourth position.
Scott left the Progressive Conservative Party prior to the 1958 provincial election, in which Winnipeg's multi-member ridings were replaced by single-seat constituencies.
He ran for re-election in St. Matthews as an independent Conservative,[2] but finished a poor fourth with only 260 votes.
Scott appears to have been a difficult member of the Progressive Conservative caucus before leaving the party.