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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Blair attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1838, the Jefferson College in Canonsburg. After a subsequent law degree in 1845 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in 1846 to work in Hollidaysburg in this profession. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In June 1856 he was a delegate participated in the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated on the John C. Frémont as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Blair was in the 18th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Rufus Edie on March 4, 1859. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1863 two legislative sessions. These were minted until 1861 by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War and in 1861 by the war itself. Since 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 U.S. House of Representatives Samuel Blair again practiced as a lawyer. In 1874, he sought unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on December 8, 1890 in Hollidaysburg, where he was also buried.