Samuel Brenton

Samuel Brenton ( born November 22, 1810 Gallatin County, Kentucky, † March 29, 1857 in Fort Wayne, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1857 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Brenton attended the public schools of his home. In 1830 he was ordained to the clergy of the Methodist Church. He then worked in this profession. Even then he was suffering from health problems. Since 1834 he lived in Danville (Indiana ), where he studied law. Politically Brenton was a member of the Whig party. Between 1838 and 1841 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. Then he was back to 1848 worked as a minister in various cities of Indiana. After a stroke, he had to give up this profession. In the years 1849-1851 he worked for the land registry office in Fort Wayne.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Brenton was in the tenth constituency of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Andrew J. Harlan on March 4, 1851. Since he has not been confirmed in 1852, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. Two years later he was elected as a candidate of the opposition party again in Congress. There he broke on March 4, 1855 Ebenezer M. Chamberlain again, who was two years earlier become his successor. In 1856, Brenton was re-elected as a candidate of the Republican Party. So that he could exercise his office until his death on 29 March 1857. These years were marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.