Richard M. Scott, also known as Dick Scott, (April 28, 1918 - January 2, 2005) was the former mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lancaster County and one of the older inland cities in the United States, . With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities...

. He is best known to have led the effort to bring professional baseball back to the city of Lancaster. This was realized with the creation of the Lancaster Barnstormers

Lancaster Barnstormers

The Lancaster Barnstormers is an American professional baseball team based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They are a member of the Freedom Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball...

, of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball

Atlantic League of Professional Baseball

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Dick Scott was born in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Roy V. and Laura Scott. He graduated from the Lancaster Boys' High School. He graduated from the United States Military Academy

United States Military Academy

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 at West Point, In January 1944, he was stationed in England and flew P38 missions over Europe. In March 1944, he was forced to land in Germany. He evaded German forces for more than four months before being captured and imprisoned in Sagan, Germany. Scott then escaped and returned to Allied lines in 1945. Scott retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1970 and returned to Lancaster, where he was elected mayor in 1973. He was re-elected in 1977. Under his leadership, Lancaster City was renewed with the Armstrong-National Central Bank, a new baseball stadium

Clipper Magazine Stadium

Clipper Magazine Stadium is a 6,000-seat baseball park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that hosted its first regular season baseball game on May 11, 2005, when the tenants of the facility, the Lancaster Barnstormers, lost to the Atlantic City Surf, 4-3...

, and a lower crime rate.

Albert Wohlsen was appointed interim mayor in 1979 after Scott resigned as mayor to serve as adjutant general

Adjutant general

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 of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1986 under former Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh

Dick Thornburgh

Richard Lewis "Dick" Thornburgh is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S...

. As Adjutant General, Scott led the Pennsylvania National Guard and the state's veterans programs.

Scott died on January 2, 2005, at Reading Hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading is a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, and seat of Berks County. Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88,082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie,...

. at the age of 86, and in 2006 Scott was inducted into the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs’ Hall of Fame.