Samuel Chase (congressman)

Samuel Chase ( * 1789 in Cooperstown, New York; † August 3, 1838 in Richfield, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1827 and 1829 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Chase was born about five years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Cooperstown and grew up there. He held various local offices. Chase was a master on the New York Court of Chancery. Between 1821 and 1829 he was district attorney in Otsego County.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams Group. In the congressional elections of 1826 Chase was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William G. Angel on March 4, 1827. He retired after March 3, from 1829, from the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to a legal activity. On August 3, 1838, he died in Richfield in Otsego County.