Samuel F. Hersey

Samuel Freeman Hersey ( born April 12, 1812 in Sumner, Oxford County, Massachusetts, † February 3, 1875 in Bangor, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine Samuel Hersey attended the common schools and then taught himself to 1831 as a teacher. At the same time he sat at the Hebron Academy continued his own education. In the following years he worked in various towns in Maine in trade and timber business. He was also a colonel in the state militia. As such, it was during a border dispute with Canada, the so-called Aroostook War, used.

Hersey struck a political career. In the years 1842, 1857 and 1865 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maine. Between 1852 and 1854 he was a member of the Governing Council of his state. He joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 and was in 1860 a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. Between 1864 and 1868 he was a member of the Republican National Committee. From 1868 to 1869 Hersey sat in the Senate of Maine. In 1870 he applied unsuccessfully for the post of Governor of Maine.

1872 Hersey was in the fourth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1873, the successor of John A. Peters. In 1874, he was confirmed in his mandate. He could complete 1877 two terms in Congress until March 3. But for this it should not come. Samuel Hersey died on February 3, 1875, one month before the end of his first term in Congress. His mandate was made after a special election to Harris Plaisted.