Samuel Campbell (politician, 1773)

Samuel Campbell (born July 11, 1773 in Mansfield , Colony of Connecticut , † June 2, 1853 in Columbus , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1821 and 1823 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Campbell was born and raised in Mansfield (then Windham County , now Tolland County ) about two years before the Revolutionary War broke out. During this time he attended community schools. He then moved to Columbus, Chenango County , where he worked in agriculture. He held the post of supervisor in the town of Columbus in 1807, 1808, 1821 and 1840 . He also served in the New York State Assembly in 1808, 1809, 1812, and 1820 . During the British-American War , he served on Major General Nathaniel King's staff as divisional quartermaster . He was an associate judge of the Chenango County Court in 1814 . Between 1815 and 1819 he held the post of sheriff in Chenango County. Then he served as a justice of the peace in Columbus for 25 years.

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the 1820 congressional election for the 17th Congress , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 15th constituency of New York , where he succeeded Joseph S. Lyman and Robert Monell on March 4, 1821 , who had previously represented the district in the US House of Representatives together. He retired from the after March 3, 1823 Congress of.

After founding the Whig Party , he joined that party. He was back in agriculture. On June 2, 1853 he died in Columbus near Sherburne and was then buried in Lambs Corners Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 182, 185, 195, 263 and 397.

Web links

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