Samuel M. Hopkins

Samuel Miles Hopkins ( born May 9, 1772 in Salem, Connecticut, † March 9, 1837 in Geneva, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Miles Hopkins was born about three years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in New London County. In 1791 he graduated from Yale College. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1793, he began practicing in Le Roy in Genesee County. In 1794 he moved to New York City, where he continued his activities as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1812, for the 13th Congress Hopkins was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he was the first representative of the district in the U.S. House of Representatives began its service on March 4, 1813. He retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress.

Hopkins sat 1820 and 1821 in the New York State Assembly. In 1821 he moved to Albany. He sat in 1822 in the Senate from New York. Between 1823 and 1826 he was employed than reporter at the New York Court of Chancery. He was 1825-1830 a member of the Commission, which oversaw the construction of the prison Sing Sing. In 1832 he became a judge of the Circuit Court of New York - a post he held until 1836. He died on 9 March 1837 in Geneva in Ontario County and was then buried in the Washington Street Cemetery.