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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseySamuel LILLY
(1815-1880)
LILLY, Samuel, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Geneva, N.Y., October 28,
1815; moved to Lambertville, N.J., in 1829; attended Rev. P.O.
Studdiford’s classical school; was graduated from the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania March 31, 1837, and
commenced practice in Lambertville, N.J.; first mayor of
Lambertville 1849-1852; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third
Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Thirty-third Congress);
director of the Board of Freeholders of Hunterdon County for eight
years; brigadier general of the State militia; appointed by
President Buchanan as consul general of the United States to
British India, with residence in Calcutta, January 3, 1861, and
served until July 4, 1862, when he resigned; judge of the court of
common pleas of Hunterdon County, N.J., 1868-1873; one of the
members of the board of managers of the New Jersey Insane Asylum in
1871; judge of the court of errors and appeals and also a member of
the State board of pardons from 1873 until his death in
Lambertville, Hunterdon County, N.J., April 3, 1880; interment in
Mount Hope Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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