Samuel S. Marshall

Samuel Scott Marshall ( * March 12, 1821 in Shawneetown, Illinois, † July 26, 1890 in McLeansboro, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859, and from 1865 to 1875, he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Marshall attended both public and private schools of his home. After he graduated from the Cumberland College in Kentucky. After a subsequent law degree in 1845 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in McLeansburg in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1846 and 1847 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois. After that, he was until 1848 the public prosecutor in the third judicial district of Illinois. From 1851 to 1854, and again in the years 1861 to 1864, he served as a district judge. In the years 1860, 1864 and 1880, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Marshall was in the ninth constituency of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Willis Allen on March 4, 1855. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Since 1857 he was chairman of the Committee on Claims.

1861 Marshall ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. In August 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. In the congressional elections of 1864, he was elected in the eleventh district of his state as the successor of James Carroll Robinson again in Congress, where he was able to complete five legislative sessions in 1875 after four elections between 4 March 1865 and 3 March. In 1874, he was not confirmed. Between 1865 and 1869 the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. Between 1865 and 1870, the 13th, the 14th and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

From 1875 to 1880 Samuel Marshall served as board member of Hamilton College. He died on July 26, 1890 in McLeansboro, where he was also buried.