Samuel F. Swope

Samuel Franklin Swope ( born March 1, 1809 Bourbon County, Kentucky, † April 19, 1865 in Falmouth, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Swope attended the common schools and the Georgetown College. After a subsequent law degree in 1830 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Georgetown in this profession. In 1832 he moved his residence and his law firm to Falmouth. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1837 and 1839, and again in 1841 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky; 1844 to 1848 he was a member of the State Senate. At that time he became a member of the short-lived American Party.

In the congressional elections of 1854 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Richard H. Stanton on March 4, 1855. Until March 3, 1857, he completed a term in Congress, which was dominated by discussions about slavery prior to the Civil War. During this time he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. 1856 renounced Samuel Swope on another candidacy. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again.

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