Samuel Prentiss

Samuel Prentiss

Samuel Prentiss (born March 31, 1782 in Stonington , Connecticut , †  January 15, 1857 in Montpelier , Vermont ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Vermont in the US Senate ; then he became a federal judge .

At the age of four, Samuel Prentiss and his family moved to Northfield , Massachusetts , where he attended prep school and was introduced to classical studies by a private tutor . He then studied law in Northfield and Brattleboro (Vermont). In 1802 he was admitted to the bar, whereupon he opened a law firm in Montpelier, which he ran until 1822.

His first political mandate held Prentiss between 1824 and 1825 as a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont . He then became an associate judge on the Vermont Supreme Court ; In 1829 he took over as Chief Justice . On March 4, 1831, he entered the US Senate in Washington, DC for the National Republican Party . He was re-elected six years later after he had meanwhile switched to the Whigs . In the Senate, he introduced, among other things, a bill that banned duels in the District of Columbia .

On April 11, 1842, Samuel Prentiss resigned to accept President John Tyler's appeal to be a judge in the Vermont District Court . He remained in this post until his death in January 1857.

His younger brother John sat in the United States House of Representatives from 1837 to 1841 as the Democratic MP for New York .

Web links

• Samuel Prentiss in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Samuel Prentiss in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges

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