Samuel B. Sherwood

Samuel Burr Sherwood (* November 26, 1767 in Weston, Connecticut, † April 27, 1833 in Westport, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Sherwood attended until 1786, the Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Westport to work in his new profession. He was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. Between 1809 and 1815 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In 1816 he became a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1816, which were held all across the state of Connecticut, he was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1817 the successor of Lewis B. Sturges. Until March 3, 1819, he spent but only one term in Congress. He then practiced as a lawyer until 1831 again; then he withdrew into retirement. Samuel Sherwood died in April 1833 in Westport and was also buried there.