Samuel P. Morrill

Samuel Plummer Morrill ( born February 11, 1816 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Massachusetts; † August 4, 1892 ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine Samuel Morrill attended the public schools of his home and then the Farmington Academy in Maine. After a subsequent study of theology and of his ordination to the clergy, he worked in this profession 1848-1853 in Farmington. Between 1857 and 1867 was Morrill Land Registry official in Franklin County.

Politically, Morrill member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1868 he was in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1869 the successor of Sidney Perham. Since he was not nominated for the elections of the year 1870 by his party, Morrill was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1871.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Morrill became a pastor again. Between 1877 and 1879 he practiced this profession in East Dixfield. In 1885 he moved to Vienna in Maine, where he still worked until 1886 as a clergyman. Then he retired. Samuel Morrill died on 4 August 1892 in his birthplace of Chesterville and was also buried there.