Samuel Thatcher

Samuel Thatcher ( born July 1, 1776 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † July 18, 1872 in Bangor, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1802 and 1805 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Thatcher studied until 1793 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1797 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in New Gloucester in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. Between 1801 and 1811, including during his time in Congress, he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Following the resignation of Mr Silas Lee Thatcher was at the due election for the twelfth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 6, 1802. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1805 in Congress. Since 1803, he represented the 16th legislative district where his state. During his time as a congressman, the territory of the United States has been considerably enlarged in 1803 by the Louisiana Purchase. 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. In the same year Thatcher was not re-elected.

Between 1814 and 1821 he was sheriff in Lincoln County, which is one of Massachusetts until 1820, and since then the state of Maine. In 1824, Thatcher was sitting as a deputy in the House of Representatives of Maine. Since 1860 he lived in Bangor, where he died on 18 July 1872.