Samuel E. May

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Samuel Erastus May (born August 4, 1826 in Pawtucket , Rhode Island , † 1894 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

Samuel Erastus May, son of Sarah Elizabeth Fisher (1800-1826) and Elisha E. May (* 1801), was born in the 1820s in Pawtucket, which was then still part of Massachusetts . His youth were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the subsequent Mexican-American War . He received an academic education. Then he helped his father manufacture cotton until September 1849 . At this point he moved to California and from there in 1851 or 1853 to the Oregon Territory , where he established a branch of the Adams Express Company . From 1855 to 1858 he was Chief Clerk in the Commissary Department. During this time he married Rebecca Shinn Parrish (1834-1909) from Ohio . The couple had all her three children in Salem ( Oregon ). The couple subsequently divorced.

He was elected Secretary of State of Oregon in the 1862 election and re-elected in 1866. He held the post from September 8, 1862 to September 10, 1870. The first half of his term of office was overshadowed by the civil war. After the war was over, one of his duties was to report to the State Department in Washington, DC on progress made in implementing the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution into Oregon law. The answer was announced in public newspapers:

" Washington , Dec. 14 - Secretary Seward today received the following telegram, addressed to him by Samuel E. May, Secretary of State of Oregon: " Salem , Or., Dec. 12, 1865. Oregon ratified the Anti-Slavery Amendment to the Constitution of the United States yesterday. Glory to God! "

After serving as Secretary of State of Oregon, he moved to the Utah Territory . There he opened an office as a notary in Salt Lake City ( Utah ) , where he lived until 1877. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois. There he married Emma Adams Gale (1856-1905).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Oregon Secretaries of State Biographical Sketches, 1841-Present , Oregon Blue Book
  2. ↑ OHS Digital Collections on digitalcollections.ohs.org
  3. ^ Digitalcollections.ohs.org: Parrish, Rebecca Shinn
  4. ^ Neiderheiser, Leta Lovelace: Jesse Applegate , Tate Publishing, 2011, ISBN 9781617392290 , p. 243
personal data
SURNAME May, Samuel E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES May, Samuel Erastus (full name); Black Sam (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1825 or August 4, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Pawtucket , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1891 or June 9, 1894
Place of death Chicago , Illinois