Samuel McClary Fite

Samuel McClary Fite (born June 12, 1816 in Alexandria , Smith County , Tennessee , †  October 23, 1875 in Hot Springs , Arkansas ) was an American politician . In 1875 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Fite attended both public and private schools in his home country and then Clinton College . After studying law in Lebanon and being admitted to the bar, he began working in his new profession in Carthage . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Whig Party . In 1850 he was a member of the Tennessee Senate ; In 1852 he was elector for the Whigs in the presidential election . Between 1858 and 1861 Fite served as a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of Tennessee, after which he worked again as a lawyer in Carthage. Between 1869 and 1874 he was again a judge in the sixth district of his state.

Politically he became a member of the Democratic Party after the dissolution of the Whigs . In the congressional elections of 1874 he was elected as their candidate in the fourth constituency of Tennessee to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John Morgan Bright on March 4, 1875 . Samuel Fite was only able to exercise this mandate until October 23, 1875, when he died in Hot Springs. He was first buried in Carthage; in 1908 he was reburied in Nashville .

Web links

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

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