High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Eden Scott (April 23, 1808 - May 3, 1862) was a prominent Virginia politician. He was born in Fauquier County, Virginia and served in the state House of delegates 1835 to 1842 and 1845 to 1852. Delegate to state constitutional conventon 185 to 1851. Represented the state in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862.