Early Years and Legal Practice
Scott was born to a family of lawyers in New Roads in Pointe Coupee Parish to attorney Nauman Steele Scott, I, and the former Sidonie Provosty. His maternal grandfather, Albin Provosty, had been a state senator, and his great-uncle, Olivier Provosty, was Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1920 to 1922. Scott was reared in Alexandria, where his father was killed in a tragic gunshot accident when Nauman was only eleven years of age. Scott, Sr., left behind five young children. For a time, he was a childhood playmate of Louisiana's future Republican national committeewoman, Virginia deGravelles, who served in the party post from 1964 to 1968.
As per his late father's wishes, Scott was sent to boarding school and graduated from the elite Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, in 1934 and from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1938. In 1941, he received his LL.B. degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. He established his practice in Alexandria from 1941-1942. On January 8, 1942, he married the former Blanche Hammond (1920–1985). From 1942-1946, he was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war, he resumed his law practice, Provosty, Sadler, and Scott, from 1946 to 1970, when he joined the court.
Scott was president of the Alexandria Bar Association from 1965-1966. On November 8, 1966, he ran for the Rapides Parish School Board. Though Scott was the top Republican votegetter, he lost the race because the weakest Democrat on the ballot still outpolled him by some 3,000 votes. Democrats won all six of the at-large school board seats contested that year.
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