Samuel Hooper

Samuel Hooper

Samuel Hooper (born February 3, 1808 in Marblehead , Essex County , Massachusetts , †  February 14, 1875 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1861 and 1875 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Hooper attended public schools in his home country. He then worked for an import company until 1832. He traveled a lot abroad. From 1832 he worked in the import trade in Boston; later he also got into the iron business. At the same time he began a political career. From 1851 to 1853 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . In 1858 he was a member of the State Senate . Politically, he joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 .

After the resignation of MP William Appleton , Hooper was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington at the by-election due for the fifth seat of Massachusetts, where he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1861. After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death . Since 1863 he represented the fourth constituency of his state there as the successor to Alexander H. Rice . Samuel Hooper was meanwhile Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means , the Banking and Currency Committee and the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures . Until 1865 his term of office was marked by the events of the civil war . Since 1865, the work of Congress has been overshadowed by tension between Republicans and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in a narrowly unsuccessful impeachment trial.

In 1874 Hooper renounced another candidacy. He did not live to see the regular end of his last term of office on March 3, 1875, as he died on February 14 of this year. He was the father-in-law of US Senator Charles Sumner (1811–1874).

Web links

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

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