Samuel Blake

Samuel Harwood Blake (* about 1807 in Hartford , Maine , † April 25, 1887 in Boston ) was an American businessman , lawyer and politician who was Maine Attorney General in 1848 .

Life

Samuel Blake was born in Hartford, Maine in about 1807. He attended Bowdoin College and upon graduation opened a law firm in Bangor in 1831 .

A member of the Democratic Party , he was elected to the Maine Senate in 1840 and 1842 and was also President pro temp of the Senate in 1842. From 1862 to 1863 he was a member of the Maine House of Representatives .

In 1848 he was a Maine Attorney General. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the United States House of Representatives against Israel Washburn junior in 1854 . Blake failed because of his attitude towards slavery. Washburn supported Abraham Lincoln in the fight against slavery. After the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Republican Party like other democrats from Mein to support the unity of the Union.

After the death of his brother William A. Blake, he took over the management of the Merchants National Bank of Bangor, which he and his brother had previously successfully built.

On the return trip from Florida, where he had spent the winter months, to Maine, he fell ill with pneumonia and died on April 25, 1887 in the Tremont House, a hotel in Boston. His grave is in Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Samuel H. Blake, Bangor, 1842. In: mainememory.net. Maine Memory Network, accessed February 4, 2016 . 
2. ^ Samuel Harwood Blake: An Address, Delivered Before the Association of Teachers, and Friends of Popular Culture: At Exeter, Dec. 28, 1836 . Association, January 1, 1837 ( books.google.com ).
3. ↑ Maine Attorneys General, 1820–. In: maine.gov. legislature.maine.gov, accessed February 13, 2016 . 
4. ^ Boston Evening Transcript - Google News Archive Search. In: google.com. news.google.com, accessed February 4, 2016 .