Samuel Gordon Daily

Samuel Gordon Daily (* 1823 in Trimble County, Kentucky; † August 15, 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) was an American politician. Between 1860 and 1865 he represented the Nebraska Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already before 1824 became a born in Kentucky in Daily Samuel with his parents in the Jefferson County, Indiana. There he attended the public schools and Hanover College. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Madison to work in his new profession.

Daily became a member of the Free Soil Party, whose candidate as he fought unsuccessfully for a seat in the legislature of Indiana. Then he moved to Indianapolis, where he worked in Böttchereigewerbe. In 1857 he moved to the Nebraska Territory. He settled in the town of Peru in Nemaha County down. There he built on the banks of the Missouri River a sawmill.

Meanwhile, Daily had become a member of the newly formed Republican Party. In 1858 he was elected to the Territorial House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1858 he was Experience Estabrook inferior. Daily submitted but against the election results a contradiction. After this had been upheld, he could assume the office of the Congress delegates from Estabrook on 18 May 1860. He was 1860 and 1862 respectively confirmed in the elections of the year and remained until March 3, 1865 Congress. He had, however, like all delegates not to vote.

After his time in Congress Daily was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln appointed deputy head of the customs authority at the port of New Orleans. This office he held until his death in August 1866.