sentences:  He won the Republican primary against former State Attorney General Wellington D. Rankin, but lost the general election to James E. Murray in a landslide.After his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate, he started working for the Forest Service again in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served as the Commander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans from 1936 to 1937.He retired from the Forest Service in 1941 and moved to Newberg, Oregon, where Scott Leavitt died on October 19, 1966.