[1] Scott Leavitt moved with his parents in 1881 to Bellaire, Michigan, where his father Roswell served as prosecuting attorney and circuit court commissioner.

[Plenty Coup's] life was in truth a symbol of the absorption of the American Indian into the citizenship of the United States," Leavitt continued.

[3]Leavitt ran for re-election in 1932, but was defeated by Roy E. Ayers in a Democratic landslide year that saw Republicans lose over a hundred seats in the United States House of Representatives.

Following his defeat for re-election, Leavitt ran for the United States Senate in a 1934 special election to fill the seat of Thomas J. Walsh, who died in office.

After his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate, he started working for the Forest Service again in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served as the Commander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans from 1936 to 1937.