Samuel Augustus Bridges

Samuel Augustus Bridges ( born January 27, 1802 in Colchester, Connecticut; † January 14, 1884 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1848 and 1879 he represented several times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Bridges enjoyed an academic education. Until 1826 he attended Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). After a subsequent law degree in 1829 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Doylestown to work in this profession. In 1830 he moved his residence and his law firm to Allentown. Between 1837 and 1842 he was there as Town Clerk municipal employee. At the same time, he served from 1842 to 1844 as deputy district attorney in Lehigh County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1841 he was a delegate part of the regional Congress of Democrats Pennsylvania.

After the death of Rep. John Westbrook Hornbeck Bridges was at the due election for the sixth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 6, 1848. Since he resigned at the regular elections this year on a bid again, he was able to finish first in Congress until March 3, 1849 only the current legislative period.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Bridges was elected to Congress again in the seventh election district of his state, where he replaced John Alexander Morrison on March 4, 1853. Since he has not been confirmed in 1854, he was able to spend only one term in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1855. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War. In the following years, Bridges withdrew from politics and practiced as a lawyer again.

He did not return until the mid-1870s back to the political arena. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was elected again in the Kongree in the tenth district of Pennsylvania, where he became the successor of William Mutchler on March 4, 1877. After the final end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Samuel Bridges operated again as a lawyer. He died on January 14, 1884 in Allentown.