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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseySamuel SWAN
(1771-1844)
SWAN, Samuel, a
Representative from New Jersey; born near Scotch Plains, Somerset
County, N.J., in 1771; studied medicine, and practiced in
Boundbrook, N.J., 1800-1806 and in Somerville, N.J., 1806-1809;
commissioned as sheriff of Somerset County October 13, 1804, for
two years; county clerk 1809-1820; elected as a Republican to the
Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress, elected as an Adams candidate to the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and reelected as an
Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1821-March
3, 1831); did not seek renomination in 1830 to the Twenty-second
Congress; affiliated with the Whig Party; resumed the practice of
medicine; died at Boundbrook, N.J., August 24, 1844; interment in
the De Groot vault in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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