Samuel L. Powers

Samuel Leland Powers ( born October 26, 1848 in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, † November 30, 1929 in Newton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1905 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Powers studied until 1874 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. After a subsequent law degree in 1875 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he went to work in Boston in this profession. In 1882 he moved to Newton, Massachusetts. Between 1883 and 1887 he sat in the local council. In the meantime, he was its chairman twice. He was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Powers was in the eleventh electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles F. Sprague on March 4, 1901. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 two legislative sessions. Since 1903, he represented there as a successor to William C. Lovering the twelfth district of his state. He was one of the congressmen who were entrusted with the implementation of an impeachment of the Federal Judge Charles Swayne. In 1904, Powers renounced another Congress candidate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer in Boston again. From 1905 to 1915 he was curator of Dartmouth College; 1915-1919 he was a member of the education committee of his state. In the years 1918 and 1919, he also acted in a commission for the revision of the State Constitution. For ten years he served in the state militia. From 1918 to 1928 he was also a member and sometimes chairman of the supervisory board of the tram of Boston. Samuel Powers died on 30 November 1929 in Newton.