Samuel W. Eager

Samuel Watkins Eager ( born April 8, 1789 in Neelytown, New York, † December 23, 1860 in Newburgh, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the years 1830 and 1831 the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Watkins Eager was born about six years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Neelytown. He attended Montgomery Academy in Montgomery and graduated in 1809 at Princeton College. Eager to study law. His admission to the bar he received in 1811 and then began to practice in Newburgh. In 1826 he moved to Montgomery, where further pursued his activities as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Anti- Jacksonian Group. He was born on November 2, 1830 in sixes electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Hector Craig. Since he renounced his candidacy for the 22th Congress, which took place on the same day as the election in the U.S. House of Representatives, he left after March 3, 1831 the Congress of. Eager 1836 returned back to Newburgh, where he worked on literary. He died there on 23 December 1860 and was buried at St. George Cemetery. About four months later, the Civil War broke out.