Samuel Galloway

Samuel Galloway

Samuel Galloway (born March 20, 1811 in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , †  April 5, 1872 in Columbus , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Galloway attended public schools in his home country. In 1830 he settled in Highland County , Ohio. Then he studied until 1833 at Miami University in Oxford (Ohio). In 1835 and 1836 he graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary . He also taught classical languages ​​in Hamilton , Miami University and Hanover College in Indiana from 1836 to 1840 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1843, he began to work in this profession in Chillicothe . Politically, he then joined the Whig Party . Between 1844 and 1850 he was the successor to John Sloane as Secretary of State in Ohio. He was committed to improving the school system. In June 1848 he took part as a delegate at the Whigs federal party conference in Philadelphia . He was also President of the Columbus Machine Manufacturing Company until 1854 .

In the congressional elections of 1854 , Galloway was elected as a candidate for the short-lived Opposition Party in the twelfth constituency of Ohio to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat Edson B. Olds on March 4, 1855 . Since he was not confirmed in 1856, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1857 . This was shaped by the events leading up to the civil war .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Galloway practiced law again. In 1858 he sought unsuccessfully to return to Congress. During the Civil War he was a Judge Advocate at Camp Chase near Columbus. After the war he was commissioned by President Andrew Johnson to investigate the situation in the southern states during the reconstruction period . He died on April 5, 1872 in Columbus, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Samuel Galloway in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Samuel Galloway in the database of Find a Grave (English)