Samuel Riker

Samuel Riker ( born February 8, 1743 Newtown, New York, † May 19, 1823 ) was an American politician and an officer in the Continental Army. Between 1804 and 1805, and 1807-1809 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Riker grew up during the British colonial period and attended community schools at this time. Moreover, nothing is further from his youth known. Riker worked actively in the revolutionary movement. He sat in the 1774 Committee of Correspondence of Newtown and served during the Revolutionary War as a lieutenant in the light cavalry ( Light Horse ). In the last year of the war, he worked as a supervisor of Suffolk County and the following year as a deputy in the New York State Assembly.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In November 1804 he was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of John Smith. His term ended on March 3, 1805. In the congressional elections of 1806 Riker was then re- elected in the first district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Eliphalet Wickes on March 4, 1807. Since he resigned in 1808 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1809 out of the Congress and withdrew from the political scene.