Lupton, Samuel Lawrence

Lupton went from Dickinson to San Francisco. He was prominent in city government by 1857, practiced before the State supreme court, and sat in the legislature after the Civil War. A Democrat, he helped voice that party's defense in California of President Andrew Johnson. In retirement, he wrote histories of northern California's pioneering years.
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Class of 1853
    Full name
    Samuel Lawrence Lupton
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Origins
    Free State
    Family
    Elisha Francis Lupton (father), Martha Jane Davidson (mother)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    State legislature
    Local government

    Samuel Lawrence Lupton (Dickinson Alumni Record)

    Reference
    Lupton, Samuel Lawrence – Born March 17, 1835, Dayton, Ohio ; p. Elisha Francis and Martha Jane (Davidson) Lupton ; prep., Govanstown academy, Baltimore county; entered 1849; retired 1853; A. B., 1859 ; A. M.,1861 ; lawyer ; admitted to practice by supreme court, California, 1861; deputy county clerk, county and city of San Francisco, 1857-63 ; assistant to city attorney, 1863-64 ; member state legislature, 1865-69 ; Zeta Psi ; B. L. society. Address, 630 Market street, San Francisco, Cal.
    George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 152.
    How to Cite This Page: "Lupton, Samuel Lawrence," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6132.