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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsSamuel HOAR
(1778-1856)
HOAR, Samuel, (son-in-law
of Roger Sherman, father of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar and George
Frisbie Hoar, grandfather of Rockwood Hoar and Sherman Hoar), a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lincoln, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 18, 1778; pursued classical studies and was
graduated from Harvard University in 1802; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in Concord,
Mass.; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820;
served in the State senate in 1826, 1832, and 1833; elected as an
Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4,
1835-March 3, 1837); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836
to the Twenty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in
Concord, Mass.; sent by the State legislature to South Carolina to
test the constitutionality of acts prohibiting free Negroes from
coming into the State and on his arrival, December 5, 1844, the
Legislature of South Carolina passed resolutions expelling him from
the city of Charleston; member of the State house of
representatives in 1850; chairman of the State convention in 1855
which formed the Republican Party in Massachusetts; died in
Concord, Mass., November 2, 1856; interment in Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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