Samuel C. Sample

Samuel Caldwell Sample ( born August 15, 1796 in Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland, † December 2, 1855 in South Bend, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1845 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Sample attended the common schools and then learned the carpenter trade. Around the year 1823 he came with his father to Connersville in Indiana. After studying law and its made ​​in 1833 admitted to the bar he began in South Bend to work in this profession. In 1834, he was a prosecutor in his new home. Between 1836 and 1843 Sample judges in the ninth judicial district of Indiana. He was also active in the banking industry. In this industry, he became the first president of the First National Bank of South Bend.

Politically sample was mid-1830s a member of the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1842 he was in the then newly created ninth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1843. Since he Democrat Charles W. Cathcart defeated in 1844, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1845. This was determined by the discussions about a possible annexation since 1836 the independent Republic of Mexico Texas.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Samuel Sample practiced again as a lawyer in South Bend. He is also passed on 2 December 1855.