Samuel Augustus Bridges

Samuel Augustus Bridges

Samuel Augustus Bridges (born January 27, 1802 in Colchester , Connecticut , †  January 14, 1884 in Allentown , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . Between 1848 and 1879 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

Samuel Bridges enjoyed an academic education. Until 1826 he attended Williams College in Williamstown ( Massachusetts ). After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1829, he began to work in Doylestown in this profession. In 1830 he moved his residence and law firm to Allentown. Between 1837 and 1842 he was there as a town clerk municipal employee. At the same time he served from 1842 to 1844 as the assistant district attorney in Lehigh County . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1841 he participated as a delegate to the regional Democratic Congress for Pennsylvania.

After the death of MP John Westbrook Hornbeck , Bridges was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due for the by-election for the sixth seat of Pennsylvania , where he took up his new mandate on March 6, 1848. Since he did not run again in the regular elections of that year, he was initially only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1849 .

In the congressional elections of 1852 Bridges was re-elected to Congress in the seventh constituency of his state, where he replaced John Alexander Morrison on March 4, 1853 . Since he was not confirmed in 1854, he could only spend one legislative period in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1855. This was shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . In the following years Bridges retired from politics and practiced as a lawyer again.

He did not return to the political stage until the mid-1870s. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was re-elected to the Congree in the tenth district of Pennsylvania, where he succeeded William Mutchler on March 4, 1877 . After the final end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Samuel Bridges worked again as a lawyer. He died in Allentown on January 14, 1884.

Web links

• Samuel Augustus Bridges in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel Augustus Bridges in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
John Westbrook Hornbeck	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (6th constituency) March 6, 1848 - March 3, 1849	Thomas Ross
John Alexander Morrison	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (7th constituency) March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855	Samuel Carey Bradshaw
William Mutchler	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (10th Constituency) March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879	Reuben Servant Bachman