{{Short description|American politician}} thumb|Scott's coat of arms '''Lewis Allaire Scott''' (February 11, 1759 – March 17, 1798) was an American politician.
==Early life== Scott was the son of John Morin Scott (1730–1784) and Helena ({{nee}} Rutgers) Scott.<ref name="CSoP1908">{{cite book |title=Charter, Constitution, By-laws, Officers, Committees, Members, Etc., 1896 |date=1908 |publisher=Colonial Society of Pennsylvania |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4JtYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA126 |access-date=15 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref> His elder sister, Mary Morin Scott, married John Litchfield and, after his death, Charles McKnight.<ref name="Jordan1911">{{cite book |last1=Jordan |first1=John Woolf |title=Colonial Families of Philadelphia |date=1911 |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/colonialfamilies02jord/page/1434 1434] |url=https://archive.org/details/colonialfamilies02jord |access-date=15 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
His father was the only child of John Scott, a Manhattan merchant, and Marian (née Morin) Scott. His maternal grandparents were Petrus Rutgers and Helena (née Hooglant) Rutgers.<ref name="Simpson1859">{{cite book |last1=Simpson |first1=Henry |title=The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, Now Deceased |date=1859 |publisher=W. Brotherhead |location = Philadelphia |page=867ff |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eHkFAAAAQAAJ |access-date=15 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{NIE|title=Scott, John Morin}}</ref>
==Career== After serving as Deputy Secretary of State of New York, Scott succeeded his father to become as the second Secretary of State of New York in 1784, serving until his death in office in 1798.
==Personal life== On January 18, 1785, he married Julianna Sitgreaves, a daughter of William Sitgreaves and Susanna ({{nee}} Deshone) Sitgreaves. She was also sister to U.S. Representative Samuel Sitgreaves. Together, they were the parents of:
* John Morin Scott (1789–1858), the Mayor of Philadelphia who married Mary Emlen, a daughter of George Emlen and Sarah ({{nee}} Fishbourne) Emlen.
He died on March 17, 1798, and was interred at Trinity Church in Manhattan.
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==External links== *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott6.html "Lewis Allaire Scott] at Political Graveyard
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