Samuel S. Marshall

Samuel S. Marshall (1859)

Samuel Scott Marshall (born March 12, 1821 in Shawneetown , Illinois , †  July 26, 1890 in McLeansboro , Illinois) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 and from 1865 to 1875 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Marshall attended both public and private schools in his home country. He then graduated from Cumberland College in Kentucky . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1845, he began to work in McLeansburg in this profession. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1846 and 1847 . He was then until 1848 prosecutor in the third judicial district of Illinois. From 1851 to 1854 and again from 1861 to 1864 he was a district judge. In the years 1860, 1864 and 1880 he took part as a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions .

In the congressional election of 1854 , Marshall was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Willis Allen on March 4, 1855 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . From 1857 he was chairman of the Committee on Claims .

In 1861, Marshall ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . In August 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia . In the congressional elections of 1864 he was re-elected to Congress in the eleventh district of his state as the successor to James Carroll Robinson , where he was able to complete five terms after four re-elections between March 4, 1865 and March 3, 1875. In 1874 it was not confirmed. Between 1865 and 1869, the work of Congress was overshadowed by tension between Republicans and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in a narrowly unsuccessful impeachment trial. Between 1865 and 1870 the 13th , 14th and 15th amendments were ratified.

From 1875 to 1880, Samuel Marshall served as a board member of Hamilton College . He died on July 26, 1890 in McLeansboro, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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