Samuel W. Gould

Samuel W. Gould

Samuel Wadsworth Gould (born January 1, 1852 in Porter , Oxford County , Maine , †  December 19, 1935 in Skowhegan , Maine) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In his youth, Samuel Gould moved to Hiram with his parents . He attended public schools in his new home and Parsonsfield Seminary . He then studied to 1877 at the University of Maine . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1879, he began practicing his new profession in Skowhegan. Between 1896 and 1900 he was also a postman in this city.

Gould was a member of the Democratic Party . For 40 years he was a delegate to all regional party conventions in Maine. Between 1882 and 1890 he was a member of the state executive of his party. In 1900, 1908 and 1912 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions , at which William Jennings Bryan and later Woodrow Wilson were nominated as presidential candidates. In 1902 Gould ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maine. In 1908 his first candidacy for Congress failed .

In the 1910 election, however, Gould was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Maine . There he took over from Edwin Burleigh on March 4, 1911 . Since he was defeated by Republican Forrest Goodwin in 1912 , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1913. After his tenure in the House of Representatives, Gould returned to working as a lawyer in Skowhegan. He has also been involved in various business deals and has served as Chairman of the University of Maine Board of Trustees. Samuel Gould died in Skowhegan on December 19, 1935.

Web links

• Samuel W. Gould in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel W. Gould in the database of Find a Grave (English)