Samuel Sitgreaves

Samuel Sitgreaves ( born March 16, 1764 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † April 4, 1827 in Easton, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1795 and 1798 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Sitgreaves enjoyed a good education. After a subsequent law degree in 1783 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. In 1790 he was a delegate to a Constitutional Convention of the State of Pennsylvania. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1794 Sitgreaves was elected in the newly refurbished fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took his seat on March 4, 1795. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation in 1798 in Congress. He was one of the deputies, who were entrusted with the implementation of the impeachment proceedings against Senator William Blount.

In 1798 was Samuel Sitgreaves American representative in negotiations in the UK. It was about mutual financial claims resulting from the American Revolution. Between 1816 and 1819 he was treasurer in Northampton County. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. Since 1815, until his death, he was also president of the Easton Bank. He died on April 4, 1827 in Easton.