Samuel H. Piles

Samuel H. Piles

Samuel Henry Piles (born December 28, 1858 in Smithland , Kentucky , †  March 11, 1940 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician and diplomat .

Early life

Samuel Piles was in the small town of Smithland in Livingston County on the border with the state of Illinois was born, where he was taught at a private school. After studying law , Piles moved to Snohomish County, Washington State in 1883 , where he began practicing as a lawyer. In 1886, Piles first settled in Spokane , only to gain a professional foothold in Seattle that same year .

Political career

In 1887, Piles was appointed Assistant District Attorney for Washington's 3rd District; he held the position until 1889. During the same period, from 1888 to 1889, he was elected to the Seattle City Council. In 1895, Piles was hired as a legal advisor to the Pacific Coast Co. , a railroad that ran on the west coast of the United States . Piles would hold the position for ten years, until 1905.

In 1904 he successfully ran for a seat in the United States Senate as a Republican party member ; after a successful election, he took up his new office on March 4, 1905. During his tenure as Senator from Washington, which lasted until March 3, 1911, Piles was chairman of the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey .

In the 1910s, Piles retired from all public office and continued to practice law in Seattle. It was, after all , President Warren G. Harding who named Piles as US ambassador to Colombia on May 29, 1922 . Piles' legation lasted six years, ending September 17, 1928.

Late life

Piles retired and moved from Washington to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He died here in 1940, at the age of 81.

Web links

• Samuel H. Piles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)