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Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician)

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Samuel Atkins Eliot
Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician)

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st district
In office
1849 – 1851
Preceded by Robert C. Winthrop
Succeeded by William Appleton

In office
1837 – 1839
Preceded by Samuel T. Armstrong
Succeeded by Jonathan Chapman

Born March 5 1798(1798-03-05)
Boston, Massachusetts
Died January 29 1862 (aged 63)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Political party Whig

Samuel Atkins Eliot, (who was a patriarch of a distinguished American family, the Eliot family and which included Thomas Hopkinson Eliot) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Eliot was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 5, 1798. He attended the Boston Latin School; graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1820. About 1826, he married Mary Lyman and had four daughters and two sons, including Charles William Eliot, a future President of Harvard University. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1834-1837; Mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1843-1844. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850 to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850; treasurer of Harvard University 1842-1853; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 29, 1862 and his body was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Preceded by
Samuel T. Armstrong
Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
1837 - 1839
Succeeded by
Jonathan Chapman
Preceded by
Robert C. Winthrop
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district

August 22, 1850March 3, 1851
Succeeded by
William Appleton
Persondata
NAME Eliot, Samuel Atkins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION US politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1798-03-05
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston, Massachusetts, USA
DATE OF DEATH 1862-01-29
PLACE OF DEATH Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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