Samuel Eddy

Samuel Eddy (born March 31, 1769 in Johnston , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , † February 3, 1839 in Providence , Rhode Island ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1819 and 1825 he represented the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, Samuel Eddy studied at Brown University in Providence until 1787 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1790, he began working for a short time in Providence in his new profession. In 1790 he switched to the civil service and became a clerk at the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. He held this office until 1793.

Between 1798 and 1819, Eddy was Secretary of State, the executive officer of his home state government. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . After their dissolution in the early 1820s, he joined the so-called Adams - Clay Republicans, a group that was in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his future Democratic Party . Later, most of the Adams Clay Republican members went over to the Whig Party , founded in the 1830s .

In 1818 Eddy was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Federalist John Linscom Boss on March 4, 1819 . After two re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1825. In the elections of 1824 he was defeated Tristam Burges . In 1828 Eddy ran again unsuccessfully against Burges for a return to Congress. In 1826 and 1827 he was an associate judge on the Rhode Island Supreme Court ; from 1827 to 1835 he was Chief Justice of this court. Samuel Eddy died in Providence in 1839 and was buried there.

Web links

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

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