Samuel Mayall

Samuel Mayall (born June 21, 1816 in North Gray , Cumberland County , Massachusetts , †  September 17, 1892 in St. Paul , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Mayall was born in North Gray in 1816. This village was still part of Massachusetts at the time, but fell to the then newly founded state of Maine in 1820 and later became part of the city of Gray . Mayall attended the public schools of his homeland and also enjoyed a private education. He later moved to Gray. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the House of Representatives from Maine in 1845, 1847, and 1848 . In the meantime he also sat in the State Senate .

In 1850 he refused his party's nomination for the congressional elections. In 1852 Mayall was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Maine . There he took over from John Appleton on March 4, 1853 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1854, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1855 . This time was marked by the heated discussions about slavery in the run-up to the civil war .

After the founding of the Republicans in 1854, Mayall became a member of this new party. In 1856 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , where John Charles Frémont was nominated as the first Republican presidential candidate. In 1857 he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he acquired large estates. At the beginning of the Civil War he became a captain in the Union Army. He later took care of his lands and other business interests in Minnesota. Samuel Mayall died on September 17, 1892 in St. Paul and was buried there.

Web links

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

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