He represented Burgeo and LaPoile in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1894 to 1900.
[1] He was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the son of Henry Mott and Rebecca Walker.
Mott originally apprenticed in the pharmaceutical business but then trained as a piano tuner[2] and came to St. John's in 1877.
Mott served as editor of the Temperance Journal for a time.
[1] Mott was the author of Newfoundland men: a collection of biographical sketches, with portraits, of sons and residents of the island who have become known in commercial, professional, and political life, published in 1894.