Samuel Sewall (politician)

Samuel Sewall

Samuel Sewall (born December 11, 1757 in Boston , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  June 8, 1814 in Wiscasset , Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1796 and 1800 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Sewall attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at Harvard College until 1776 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in Marblehead . At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1784 and between 1788 and 1796 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts . Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790s .

After the resignation of MP Benjamin Goodhue , Sewall was elected to the US House of Representatives in the by-election for the tenth seat of Massachusetts, where he took up his new mandate on December 7, 1796. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on January 10, 1800 . In 1798 he was one of the MPs charged with conducting impeachment proceedings against US Senator William Blount . In 1801 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Samuel Sewall served as a judge on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court between 1801 and 1814 . In the years 1813 and 1814 he was Chief Justice of the latter. Samuel Sewall died on June 8, 1814 in Wiscasset, which was then part of Massachusetts and is now in the state of Maine .

Web links

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