Samuel G. Hilborn

Samuel Greeley Hilborn ( born December 9, 1834 in Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, † April 19, 1899 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1892 and 1899 he represented two times the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hilborn Samuel attended the common schools and Hebron Academy and the Gould's Academy. He then completed until 1859, the Tufts College in Medford ( Massachusetts). After a subsequent law degree in 1861 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Vallejo, California, where he had since moved to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1875 and 1879 he was a member of the Senate of California. In 1879 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. Since 1883 Hilborn lived in San Francisco. From 1883 to 1886 he was United States Attorney for California. Then he moved to Oakland, where he practiced as a private attorney.

After the resignation of the federal judges appointed deputies Joseph McKenna Hilborn was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the third seat from California, where he took up his new mandate on 5 December 1892. The result of this election, but was challenged by his rival candidate Warren B. English. After this appeal was upheld, Hilborn had to cede to English from his position on 4 April 1894.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Hilborn was re-elected in the third constituency of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Warren English again on March 4, 1895. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. In 1898 Samuel Hilborn has not been nominated by his party for re-election. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in the federal capital, Washington, where he died on 19 April 1899.