Samuel F. Hersey

Samuel F. Hersey

Samuel Freeman Hersey (born April 12, 1812 in Sumner , Oxford County , Massachusetts , † February 3, 1875 in Bangor , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now Maine, Samuel Hersey attended public schools in his homeland and then taught himself as a teacher until 1831. At the same time he continued his own education at the Hebron Academy . In the following years he worked in various cities in Maine in the trade and lumber business. He also became a colonel in the state militia. As such, he was deployed during a border conflict with Canada , the so-called Aroostook War .

Hersey also embarked on a political career. He was a member of the House of Representatives from Maine in 1842, 1857, and 1865 . Between 1852 and 1854 he was a member of the government council of his state. He joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1860 , where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1864 and 1868 he was a member of the Republican National Committee . Hersey served in the Maine Senate from 1868 to 1869 . In 1870 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maine.

In 1872, Hersey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Maine . There he took over from John A. Peters on March 4, 1873 . In 1874 he was confirmed in his mandate. This would have allowed him to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1877 . But it shouldn't come to that. Samuel Hersey died on February 3, 1875, one month before the end of his first term in Congress. His mandate fell to Harris Plaisted after a by-election .

Web links

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