Samuel Hammond

Samuel Hammond (born September 21, 1757 in Farnham Parish , Richmond County , Colony of Virginia , †  September 11, 1842 in the border area between Georgia and South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1803 and 1805 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Hammond was born during the British colonial era. He attended the public schools in his homeland and then took part in an Indian war. During the War of Independence he was a soldier in the Continental Army . After the war, Hammond settled in Savannah, Georgia. In 1796 he became head of land surveying for that state. He also took part in a war against the Creek Indians. In 1793 he commanded a corps of the Georgia State Militia. In the late 1790s, Hammond became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1796 and 1798 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives ; from 1799 to 1800 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the state-wide congressional election of 1802 , Hammond was elected for the then newly created fourth seat of Georgia in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1803. On February 2, 1805, one month before the regular end of the legislative term on March 3, 1805, Hammond resigned because he had been appointed governor of the northern part of the Louisiana Territory . During his time in Congress , the 12th Amendment was passed there. The territory of the United States was considerably expanded by the Louisiana Purchase made by President Jefferson .

Hammond served as territorial governor until 1824. In the meantime he was a tax collector ( receiver of public money ) in Missouri and president of the Bank of St. Louis . In 1824, Hammond moved to South Carolina, where he continued his political career. He was first a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . In 1825 he took over the management of the land surveying agency of this state; from 1831 to 1835 he served as Secretary of State executive officer of the state government of South Carolina. During this time the nullification crisis fell .

After he left the office of Secretary of State , Samuel Hammond retired; he died on September 11, 1842 on a farm in the Georgia-South Carolina border area not far from the city of Augusta , but on the territory of the state of South Carolina. He was buried in New Richmond, South Carolina.

Web links

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

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