Samuel S. Ellsworth

Samuel S. Ellsworth

Samuel Stewart Ellsworth (born October 13, 1790 in Pownal , Vermont , † June 4, 1863 in Penn Yan , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1845 and 1847 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Stewart Ellsworth was born in Bennington County about seven years after the Revolutionary War ended . He attended community schools. In 1819 he moved to Penn Yan, where he did commercial business. Between 1824 and 1828 he was a supervisor in Milo , Yates County, and between 1824 and 1829 a judge in Yates County. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1840 .

Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1844 for the 29th Congress Ellsworth was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 26th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Amasa Dana on March 4, 1845 . He retired from the after March 3, 1847 Congress of. His time in Congress was overshadowed by the Mexican-American War .

He died in Penn Yan during the Civil War . His body was then interred in Lake View Cemetery .

Web links

• Samuel S. Ellsworth in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel S. Ellsworth in the database of Find a Grave (English)