It still stands to this day in Napoleon on the corner of W. Clinton Street and Haley Ave. Robert K. Scott was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, to a military family.

He served in Tennessee, where he commanded the advance of Major General John A. Logan's division on the march into Mississippi.

In 1870, the South Carolina Constitution of 1868 lifted the rule that had until then prevented a governor's re-election until four years had passed since leaving office.

During his time in office, Klan violence reached an all-time high, while simultaneously the federal government was attempting to withdraw force from South Carolina so as to return the state to "normalcy," this combination left Scott in an untenable position.

The majority of those voting for Scott in both of his elections were newly freed African-American Freedmen, South Carolina whites remained overtly and overwhelmingly hostile to him during his entire time in office.

[3] Scott got support from President Ulysses S. Grant, however the rest of the military and northern ambivalence in general hampered his efforts.

[6][full citation needed] Franklin J. Moses, Jr., the first governor after him, claimed Scott "fraudulently signed state bonds in the St James Hotel in New York under the joint influence of alcohol and burlesque queen Pauline Markham," known as one of "The British Blondes."

[7] Wade Hampton III, the third governor after Scott, who came to power as a result of a racist terrorist campaign led by the Red Shirts militia, indicted him for allegedly "fraudulently issuing three warrants for $48,645 to non-existent payees in 1871."