Samuel Gordon Daily

Samuel Gordon Daily (* 1823 in Trimble County , Kentucky , † August 15, 1866 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1860 and 1865 he represented the Nebraska Territory as a delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Daily, born in Kentucky the year before, moved with his parents to Jefferson County in Indiana in 1824 . There he attended public schools and Hanover College . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in Madison in his new profession.

Daily became a member of the Free Soil Party , as a candidate for which he unsuccessfully sought a seat in the Indiana legislature. He then moved to Indianapolis , where he worked in the cooperage trade. In 1857 he moved to the Nebraska Territory. He settled in the town of Peru in Nemaha County . There he built a sawmill on the banks of the Missouri River .

In the meantime, Daily had become a member of the newly formed Republican Party . In 1858 he was elected to the Territorial House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1858 he was inferior to Experience Estabrook . Daily appealed against the election result. After this was granted, he was able to take over the office of Congress delegate from Estabrook on May 18, 1860. He was confirmed in the elections of 1860 and 1862 and remained in Congress until March 3, 1865 . Like all delegates, however, he had no voting rights there.

After his tenure in Congress, Daily was named assistant chief of customs in the port of New Orleans by President Abraham Lincoln . He held this office until his death in August 1866.

Web links

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

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