Samuel Maxwell

Samuel Maxwell ( born May 20, 1825 Lodi, Seneca County, New York, † February 11, 1901 in Fremont, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Maxwell attended the public schools of his home and his family moved in 1844 to Michigan. There he worked as a teacher and in agriculture. He also began studying law. In 1856 he moved to the Cass County, Nebraska Territory, where he also worked in agriculture. After he had in the meantime completed his law studies and was admitted in 1859 as an attorney, Samuel Maxwell began in Plattsmouth to work in his new profession.

Politically he was first a member of the Republican Party. He was a delegate to the first convention in Nebraska Territory and 1859-1865 several times a deputy in the territorial House of Representatives. In the years 1864 and 1866 Maxwell was also a delegate to two constitutional conventions. In 1875 he was a member of another meeting to revise the constitution of the now established in the State of Nebraska. Already in 1866 he had been elected to the House of Representatives from Nebraska. He was a member of the Planning Commission for the construction of the new state capital and establishing a location for the future State University.

In the years 1872, 1875, 1881 and 1887, he was elected beiseitzenden Judge at the Supreme Court of Nebraska. Meanwhile, he was converted to the newly formed Populist Party. In the congressional elections of 1896 Maxwell was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he George de Rue Meiklejohn replaced on March 4, 1897. Maxwell exercised its mandate in Congress but only one legislative period long until 3 March in 1899. After the end of his work in Congress, he again worked as a lawyer in Fremont. He is also passed away in February 1901.

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