Samuel Dana

Samuel Dana ( born June 26, 1767 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † November 20, 1835 in Charlestown, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. In the years 1814 and 1815, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Dana attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1789 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Groton to work in this profession. In 1801, he also became postmaster in his hometown. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In 1803 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. After that, he was from 1805 to 1812 to the State Senate, which he chaired from time to time. From 1807 to 1811 he served as a prosecutor in Middlesex County. After that, he was until 1812 appeal judges.

Following the resignation of Mr William M. Richardson Dana was at the due election for the fourth seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 22 September 1814. Since he has not been confirmed in 1814, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1815. 1817 Dana sat again in the Massachusetts Senate; in 1820 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. After that, he was from 1825 to 1827 again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He also practiced as a lawyer again. Samuel Dana died on 20 November 1835 in Charlestown.