Samuel M. Hopkins

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Samuel M. Hopkins

Samuel Miles Hopkins (born May 9, 1772 in Salem , Colony of Connecticut , † March 9, 1837 in Geneva , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1813 and 1815 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Miles Hopkins was born in New London County about three years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War . In 1791 he graduated from Yale College . He studied law . After receiving his license to practice bar in 1793, he began practicing in Le Roy , Genesee County . In 1794 he moved to New York City , where he continued his practice as a lawyer. Politically he belonged to the Federalist Party .

In the 1812 congressional elections for the 13th Congress , Hopkins was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 21st  constituency of New York , where he began serving as the first representative of the district in the US House of Representatives on March 4, 1813 . He retired from the after March 3, 1815 Congress of.

Hopkins was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1820 and 1821 . In 1821 he moved to Albany . He sat in the New York Senate in 1822 . Between 1823 and 1826 he worked as a reporter at the New York Court of Chancery . Between 1825 and 1830 he was a member of the commission that oversaw the construction of Sing Sing Prison . In 1832 he became a Circuit Court judge in New York - a post he held until 1836. He died on March 9, 1837 in Geneva, Ontario County and was then buried in Washington Street Cemetery .

Web links

  • Samuel M. Hopkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)