Samuel Steel Blair

Samuel Steel Blair

Samuel Steel Blair (born December 5, 1821 in Indiana , Indiana County , Pennsylvania , †  December 8, 1890 in Hollidaysburg , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1863 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Blair attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1838 Jefferson College in Canonsburg . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1845, he began to work in this profession in Hollidaysburg in 1846. Politically, he joined the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In June 1856 he took part as a delegate at the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , at which John C. Frémont was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1858 congressional election , Blair was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 18th  constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded John Rufus Edie on March 4, 1859 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1863 . Until 1861 these were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war and from 1861 by the war itself. From 1861 Blair was chairman of the committee on private land claims. In 1862 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Samuel Blair practiced law again. In 1874 he sought unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on December 8, 1890 in Hollidaysburg, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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

predecessor	Office	successor
John Rufus Edie	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (18th electoral district) March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1863	James Tracy Hale