[2] In 1840, Scott was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives for the 39th General Assembly as a Whig.

[4] In 1856, Scott was nominated by the Republican Party for Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, and he defeated incumbent Democrat Rufus P. Ranney and a third party candidate with a plurality of the votes in the General Election.

In 1876, Governor Hayes appointed him to the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio, and he resigned at the end of a three-year term in 1879.

Scott married again May 4, 1846, to Susan Elizabeth Moffit, who had no children and died in 1891.

[1] He died June 15, 1879, from kidney disease and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus.