Herrick, Samuel

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Class of 1805
    Full name
    Samuel Herrick
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Disputed
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Origins
    Free State
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Educator
    Political Parties
    Jeffersonian Republican
    Government
    Jackson Administration (1829-37)
    US House of Representatives
    Local government
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)

    Samuel Herrick (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    HERRICK, Samuel, a Representative from Ohio; born in Amenia, Dutchess County, N.Y., April 14, 1779; pursued an academic course; studied law in Carlisle, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in St. Clairsville, Ohio; moved to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1810; appointed prosecuting attorney of Guernsey County in 1810 and also United States district attorney; in 1814 appointed prosecuting attorney of Licking County and commissioned brigadier general of the Ohio Militia; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Fifteenth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1820; continued the practice of law; presidential elector on the Jackson and Calhoun ticket in 1828; appointed United States district attorney for Ohio in 1829 but resigned June 30, 1830; died in Zanesville, Ohio, June 4, 1852; interment in City (now Greenwood) Cemetery.
    "Herrick, Samuel," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000542.
    How to Cite This Page: "Herrick, Samuel," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5884.