A. Scott Bullitt was a member of a prominent Kentucky family, a Princeton graduate and a lawyer who transplanted to Seattle. In 1918 he married Dorothy Stimson, a young woman from a wealthy Seattle family. He was passionate about politics and, unlike his in-laws the Stimsons, he was a Democrat. He organized the Democratic party in Washington state and ran for both senator and governor, but was unsuccessful. A. Scott Bullitt served as national committeeman of the Democratic Party and was scheduled to nominate his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president when he died of liver cancer in 1932.

This portrait of Bullitt is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operate a studio in various Seattle locations. In 1932 she partnered with Richard Anderson; they continued to work together until she retired in 1954 due to her failing eyesight. She died in 1965 at the age of 102. Taken before the McBride-Anderson partnership began; it is not known which partner was the photographer.

Handwritten on sleeve: A. Scott Bullitt - lawyer?
Photographer's Reference Number: 6635A