Samuel Hambleton (Maryland congressman)

Samuel Hambleton ( born January 8, 1812 Talbot County, Maryland; † 9 December 1886 in Easton, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Hambleton enjoyed a private school education. After a subsequent law degree in 1833 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Easton to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1834 and 1835, he sat in the House of Maryland; 1836-1844 he served as a prosecutor in Talbot County. From 1844 to 1850 Hambleton was a member of the Senate of Maryland. In 1853 and 1854 he was president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Company. Moreover, he was in 1853 again a member of the House of Representatives Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1868 Hambleton was the first electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hiram McCullough on March 4, 1869. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1873 two legislative sessions. In 1870 the 15th Amendment was ratified. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Hambleton withdrew from politics. He died on 9 December 1886 in Easton, where he was also buried.