Samuel Maxwell

Samuel Maxwell (born May 20, 1825 in Lodi , Seneca County , New York , † February 11, 1901 in Fremont , Nebraska ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the third constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Maxwell attended his homeland public schools and moved to Michigan with his family in 1844 . There he worked as a teacher and in agriculture. He also began studying law. In 1856 he moved to Cass County , Nebraska , where he also worked in agriculture. After he had meanwhile finished his law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1859, Samuel Maxwell began in Plattsmouth to work in his new profession.

Politically, he first became a member of the Republican Party . He was a delegate at their first party congress in the Nebraska Territory and between 1859 and 1865 several times a member of the Territorial House of Representatives. Maxwell was also a delegate to two constituent assemblies in 1864 and 1866. In 1875 he was a member of another assembly to revise the state constitution of the now established state of Nebraska. He had been elected to the Nebraska House of Representatives as early as 1866 . He was a member of the planning commission for the construction of the new state capital and for the definition of a location for the future state university.

In 1872, 1875, 1881, and 1887 he was elected associate judge on the Nebraska Supreme Court. In the meantime he had joined the newly founded Populist Party . In the congressional elections of 1896 Maxwell was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced George de Rue Meiklejohn on March 4, 1897 . Maxwell only exercised his mandate in Congress for one term until March 3, 1899. After retiring from Congress, he returned to Fremont as a lawyer. He died there in February 1901.

Web links

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

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