Samuel Sewall (congressman)

Samuel Sewall ( born December 11, 1757 Boston, Massachusetts, † June 8, 1814 in Wiscasset, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1796 and 1800 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Sewall attended the common schools and then studied until 1776 at Harvard College. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Marblehead in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1784 and 1788-1796 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party.

Following the resignation of Mr Benjamin Goodhue Sewall was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives at the due election for the tenth seat from Massachusetts, where he took up his new mandate on December 7, 1796. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on January 10, 1800 in Congress. In 1798 he was one of the deputies, who were entrusted with the implementation of an impeachment of U.S. Senator William Blount.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was Samuel Sewall 1801-1814 Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the years 1813 and 1814 he served as Chief Justice presided. Samuel Sewall died on June 8, 1814 in Wiscasset, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts and is now located in the state of Maine.