Robert Eden Scott was a Virginia planter, lawyer and politician who served many terms in the Virginia General Assembly. He also represented Fauquier County at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 and the surrounding district in the Provisional Confederate Congress, until his death at the hands of Union Army deserters while defending his farm.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 23, 1808
- Died
- May 3, 1862