Samuel B. Pettengill
Samuel Barrett Pettengill (born 19 January 1886 in Portland, Oregon, † March 20, 1974 in Springfield, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1939 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Samuel Pettengill was a nephew of the congress delegates William H. Clagett (1838-1901) from Montana. Even in his youth he moved with his father in the near Grafton in the state of Vermont, where he attended the public schools. Subsequently, he studied until 1904 at the Vermont Academy and thereafter until 1908 at Middlebury College. After a subsequent law degree from Yale University and his made in 1911 admitted to the bar he began in South Bend (Indiana) to work in this profession. In the years 1926-1928 he was sitting there in the school council.
Politically, Pettengill member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1930 he was in the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Eugene B. Crowe on March 4, 1931. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 four legislative sessions. During this time, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. 1938 Pettengill waived on a bid again.
After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1939 and 1948 he also wrote newspaper articles. In the years 1943-1945 was Pettengill vice president and advisor of the Transportation Association of America. Afterwards he worked until 1948 as a radio commentator. From 1949 to 1956 he was the legal representative of the company Pure Oil Co. in Chicago. Subsequently, he was until 1965 the consultant Coe Foundation. Then Samuel Pettengill withdrew into retirement, which he spent in his old home near Grafton Vermont. He died on March 20, 1974 in Springfield and was buried in Grafton.