Ezekiel S. Sampson

Ezekiel Silas Sampson ( born December 6, 1831 Huron County, Ohio; † October 7, 1892 in Sigourney, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1843 Ezekiel Sampson came into the Keokuk County, Iowa, where he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the Howe 's Academy in Mount Pleasant and the Knox College in Illinois. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1856 admitted to the bar he began in Sigourney to work in his new profession. Between 1856 and 1858 Sampson worked as a prosecutor from 1861 to 1864 he took as an officer of an infantry unit of the Union Army in the American Civil War part. At the end of his military service, he had brought it up to lieutenant colonel. Then he returned to Sigourney, where he worked as a lawyer again.

Politically, Sampson member of the Republican Party. In 1866 he was elected to the Senate from Iowa. Between 1867 and 1875 he was a judge in the Sixth Judicial District of the State of. In 1874 he was in the sixth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Loughridge on January 4, 1875. After a re-election in 1876, Sampson was able to remain in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1878 he lost to James B. Weaver of the short-lived Greenback Party.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Sampson again worked as a lawyer in Sigourney. There he is on October 7, 1892 and passed away.

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