Samuel Wadsworth Gould

Samuel Wadsworth Gould ( born January 1, 1852 in Porter, Oxford County, Maine, † December 19, 1935 in Skowhegan, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In his youth, Samuel Gould moved with his parents to Hiram. He attended the public schools of his new home and the Parsonsfield Seminary. Subsequently, he studied until 1877 at the University of Maine. After studying law and its made ​​in 1879 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Skowhegan. Between 1896 and 1900 he was also postmaster in this city.

Gould was a member of the Democratic Party. For 40 years he was a delegate at all regional party conferences in Maine. Between 1882 and 1890 he was a member of the State Board of his party. In the years 1900, 1908 and 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant, on which William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson were later nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1902, Gould ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Maine. 1908 failed his first candidacy for Congress.

In the elections of 1910, Gould was but then in the third electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1911 the successor of Edwin Burleigh. As he defeated Republican Forrest Goodwin in 1912, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1913. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Gould again worked as a lawyer in Skowhegan. He was also involved in various shops as well as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine. Samuel Gould died on 19 December 1935 in Skowhegan.

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