Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician)

Samuel Atkins Eliot ( born March 5, 1798 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 29, 1862 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. In the years 1850 and 1851, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Eliot attended the Boston Latin School and then studied until 1817 at Harvard University. Then he attended until 1820, also at Harvard University belonging Divinity School. In the 1830s he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. Between 1834 and 1837 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Then he held 1837-1839, the Office of the Mayor of Boston, where he founded a professional fire department in this capacity. In the years 1843 and 1844 Eliot sat in the Massachusetts Senate.

Following the resignation of Mr Robert Charles Winthrop Eliot was at the due election for the first seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on August 22, 1850. Since he resigned at the regular elections of the year 1850, another candidate, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1851. Since 1842 to 1853, including during his time as a congressman, Eliot was treasurer of Harvard University. Since 1820 he was married to Mary Lyman, with whom he had six children. The son of Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was from 1869 to 1909 president of Harvard University. Samuel Eliot died on January 29, 1862 in Cambridge. His great-grandson Thomas H. Eliot (1907-1991) was also a congressman.