Samuel G. Hilborn

Samuel G. Hilborn

Samuel Greeley Hilborn (born December 9, 1834 in Minot , Androscoggin County , Maine , †  April 19, 1899 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1892 and 1899 he represented the state of California twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Hilborn attended the public schools in his home country as well as the Hebron Academy and Gould's Academy . He then graduated from Tufts College in Medford ( Massachusetts ) until 1859 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1861, he began to work in this profession in Vallejo , California , where he had since moved. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1875 and 1879 he was a member of the California Senate . In 1879 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution. Hilborn lived in San Francisco from 1883 . From 1883 to 1886 he was a federal attorney for California. He then moved to Oakland , where he practiced as a private lawyer.

After the resignation of the federal judge appointed deputies Joseph McKenna Hilborn was chosen for the due election for the third seat from California as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on December 5 1,892th The result of this election was challenged by his opponent Warren B. English . After this objection was granted, Hilborn had to cede his mandate to English on April 4, 1894.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Hilborn was again elected to the US House of Representatives in the third constituency of his state, where he replaced Warren English again on March 4, 1895. After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1899 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . In 1898, Samuel Hilborn was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. He then retired, which he spent in the federal capital Washington, where he died on April 19, 1899.

Web links

• Samuel G. Hilborn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel G. Hilborn in the database of Find a Grave (English)