Samuel Hooper

Samuel Hooper ( born February 3, 1808 in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts, † February 14, 1875 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1875 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Hooper attended the public schools of his home. He then worked until 1832 for an import company. He traveled extensively abroad. Since 1832, he worked in Boston in the import trade; later he went into the iron business. At the same time he began a political career. From 1851 to 1853 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1858 he was a member of the State Senate. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

Following the resignation of Mr William Appleton Hooper was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the fifth seat from Massachusetts, where he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1861. After five elections he could remain until his death in Congress. Since 1863 he represented there as a successor of Alexander H. Rice the fourth electoral district of his state. Samuel Hooper was meanwhile chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, the Bank and the Monetary Committee and the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. By 1865 his term was coined by the events of the Civil War. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment.

In 1874, Hooper gave up another candidacy. He experienced the regular end of his last term of office on March 3, 1875 no longer, as he died on 14 February this year. He was the father of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner ( 1811-1874 ).