Samuel Medary

Samuel Medary ( born February 25, 1801 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, † November 7, 1864 in Columbus, Ohio ) was an American politician. He was governor of the Minnesota Territory from 1857 to 1858 and the Kansas - the territory of 1858 until 1860.

Early years and political rise

Samuel Medary attended the local schools of his home in Pennsylvania. He was enthusiastic about the profession of journalism and made appropriate training. In 1825 he moved to Batavia, Ohio, and three years later was editor of the newspaper " Ohio Sun". This newspaper was close to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. Medarys political career began in 1834, when he was elected for the Democrats in the House of Representatives from Ohio. Between 1836 and 1838 he was in the state Senate. Then he bought a newspaper in Columbus and gave her the new name " Ohio Statesmen ", whose publisher and editor he was to remain until 1857. Medary was a delegate to the 1844 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, where he supported the presidential candidacy of James K. Polk. In 1856, he served President of the Congress in Cincinnati, on the James Buchanan was nominated for the office of U.S. president.

Territorial Governor of Minnesota and Kansas

In March 1857 Medary was appointed by President Buchanan to last governor of Minnesota Territory. There he oversaw the transition of the area from a territory to a regular state. His tenure ended after Minnesota was taken in May 1858 in the United States. After that, he was briefly head of the U.S. Federal Post Office in Columbus. He was then for two years new Governor of Kansas Territory. Prior to the Civil War it was there at the time to bloody riots. The dispute was over the question of slavery. In his tenure, but recorded as early as the further way from Kansas who was then taken up in 1861 as a slave- free state in the Union. In December 1860 Medary resigned from his post after he was defeated at the first election for governor of the new state against Charles L. Robinson. His Secretary of State George M. Beebe then prepared the transition from the territorial government of the new state and handed in February 1861, the presidency to Robinson.

After his time in Kansas Medary returned to Columbus. There he was, until his death in 1864, the newspaper out, " The Crisis ".