Samuel H. Piles

Samuel Henry Piles ( born December 28, 1858 in Smithland, Kentucky, † March 11, 1940 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician and diplomat.

Early life

Samuel Piles was born in the small town of Smithland in Livingston County on the border with the state of Illinois, where he was taught at a private school. After studying law Piles drew 1883 in the Snohomish County in Washington State, where he began to practice as a lawyer. In 1886, Piles was first settled in Spokane to believe in the same year career in Seattle foot.

Political career

In 1887 Piles was appointed Deputy Prosecutor of the third court district of Washington; He held the position until 1889. During the same period, from 1888 to 1889, he was elected to the city council of Seattle. In 1895 Piles got a job as a legal advisor at the Pacific Coast Co., a railway line, those on the west coast of the United States had their route. Piles should function for ten years, until 1905, holding.

In 1904, he successfully ran as a party member of the Republican for a seat in the Senate of the United States; following his successful election, he took up his new post on March 4, 1905. During his tenure as a senator from Washington, which lasted until March 3, 1911 Piles was Chairman of the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey.

In the 1910s to Piles withdrew from all public offices and was still working as a lawyer in Seattle. It was, after President Warren G. Harding, who Piles on May 29, 1922 appointed U.S. ambassador to Colombia. Piles ' mission lasted six years, until 17 September 1928.

Late life

Piles withdrew into retirement and moved in the 1930s from Washington to Los Angeles California. Here he died in 1940, at the age of 81 years.