Samuel C. Hyde

Samuel C. Hyde

Samuel Clarence Hyde (born April 22, 1842 in Fort Ticonderoga , Essex County , New York , †  March 7, 1922 in Spokane , Washington ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

As a child, Samuel Hyde moved to Wisconsin , where he attended public schools. During the Civil War he was a soldier in a Wisconsin infantry unit . He then worked for several years as a surveyor in the northern area of ​​the states of Wisconsin and Michigan . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa and his admission as a lawyer in 1876, he began to work in Rock Rapids ( Iowa ) in his new profession. In 1877 Hyde moved to the Washington Territory , where he settled in the Puget Sound area and practiced as a lawyer. Three years later he moved his residence and his law firm to Spokane. Between 1880 and 1886 he was a district attorney in Spokane County .

Politically, Hyde was a member of the Republican Party . In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1894, he was elected as his party's candidate for the first congressman of Washington in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took over from John Lockwood Wilson on March 4, 1895 . Since he was not confirmed in 1896, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1897 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Hyde returned to Spokane. There he was justice of the peace from 1904 until his death on March 7, 1922.

Web links

• Samuel C. Hyde in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel C. Hyde in the database of Find a Grave (English)