Scott Hoyman was born in 1920 in Cairo, Egypt, where his parents were United Presbyterian missionaries. He graduated from Monmouth College in 1941 and, after a series of jobs including World War II conscientious objector alternative service, eventually went to work in 1948 for the Textile Workers Union of America as the education director for two joint boards in Maine. He joined the TWUA international staff in 1950 and was transferred to the South in 1952.
Through a series of progressively more responsible positions, Hoyman remained in the South until 1979 when he was appointed Executive Vice President of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. He was assistant director of the union's J.P. Stevens Campaign, 1963-1966, and remained closely involved with that effort after he was named Southern Regional Director in January 1967. He was elected to TWUA's Executive Council in 1971. He retired in August 1985.
