Samuel Taggart

Samuel Taggart (born March 24, 1754 in Londonderry , Rockingham County , New Hampshire Colony , †  April 25, 1825 in Colrain , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1803 and 1817 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Taggart attended preparatory schools and then until 1774 Dartmouth College in Hanover . After studying theology and being ordained a clergyman in 1776, he began to work in this profession. At first he was a pastor in Colrain; then he traveled as a missionary to western New York State . Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790s .

In the 1802 congressional election , Taggart was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Josiah Smith on March 4, 1803 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1817 . During his time as a congressman in 1803 , the Louisiana Purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson expanded the territory of the United States considerably. In 1804 the twelfth amendment was ratified. Taggart also lived through the British-American War of 1812 as a Congressman. In the course of this war, Congress was also burned down by the British and had to move to alternative quarters for a few years.

In 1816, Samuel Taggart declined to run again. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked again as a clergyman in Colrain until his retirement on October 28, 1818. He died on April 25, 1825 on his farm there.

Web links

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

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