Samuel S. Ellsworth

Samuel Stewart Ellsworth ( born October 13, 1790 in Pownal, Vermont, † June 4, 1863 in Penn Yan, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Stewart Ellsworth was born about seven years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Bennington County. He attended community schools. In 1819 he moved to Penn Yan, where he pursued commercial transactions. Between 1824 and 1828 he was supervisor in Milo Yates County and 1824-1829 Judge in Yates County. He sat in 1840 in the New York State Assembly.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1844 for the 29th Congress Ellsworth was in the 26th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Amasa Dana on March 4, 1845. He retired after March 3, 1847 from the Congress. His time Congress was overshadowed by the Mexican-American War.

He died during the Civil War in Penn Yan. His body was then buried in the Lakeview Cemetery.