Scott was born to Roy J. Scott and the former Edna Dodson in Wrights, an unincorporated community in Greene County in west-central Illinois.
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In 1973, Scott and Jimmy G. Shoalmire, historian and archivist at Mississippi State, co-authored The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership. based on papers from the Henry A. Wallace Collection at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
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