Samuel Dana (politician)

Samuel Dana (born June 26, 1767 in Groton , Middlesex County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  November 20, 1835 in Charlestown , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . In 1814 and 1815 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Dana attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1789, he began to work in this profession in Groton. In 1801 he also became a postman in his hometown . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1803 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . After that he was a member of the State Senate from 1805 to 1812 , which he temporarily chaired. From 1807 to 1811 he served as the prosecutor in Middlesex County. He was then an appeal judge until 1812.

After the resignation of MP William M. Richardson , Dana was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on September 22, 1814 at the by-election for the fourth seat of Massachusetts . Since he was not confirmed in 1814, he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1815 . In 1817 Dana was again in the Massachusetts Senate; in 1820 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution . He was then from 1825 to 1827 again a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He also practiced as a lawyer again. Samuel Dana died in Charlestown on November 20, 1835.

Web links

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

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