Samuel Snider

Samuel Prather Snider (born October 9, 1845 in Mount Gilead , Ohio , †  September 24, 1928 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Snider attended public schools in his homeland including Mount Gilead High School . He then studied at Oberlin College . During the Civil War , he was a soldier in an Ohio infantry unit in the Union Army. After the war, he went into trading in New York State . In 1876 he moved to Minneapolis. There he was involved in the planning and construction of the Midland Railway in the southern part of Minnesota. He was also active in agriculture and iron mining.

Politically, Snider was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1884 and 1888 he was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives . In the congressional elections of 1888 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Edmund Rice of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1889 . Since he was not confirmed in the elections of 1890, Snider could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1891 .

In 1892, Snider was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, where President Benjamin Harrison was nominated for a second term. He then retired, which he spent in Minneapolis. He was buried there after his death on September 24, 1928.

Web links

• Samuel Snider in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Samuel Snider in the database of Find a Grave (English)