| LC control no. | n 85828699 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Prentiss, Samuel, 1782-1857 |
| Variant(s) | Prentiss, Mr. (Samuel), 1782-1857 |
| Birth date | 1782-03-31 |
| Death date | 1857-01-15 |
| Place of birth | Stonington (Conn.) |
| Place of death | Montpelier (Vt.) |
| Affiliation | Whig Party (U.S.) Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Judges Lawyers |
| Found in | nuc85-77954: His Speech of the Hon. Samuel Prentiss ... [MI] 1838 (hdg. on OU rept.: Prentiss, Samuel, 1782-1857; usage: Samuel Prentiss) His Remarks of Mr. Allen's counsel, upon the petition of Silas Hathaway, praying for a new trial, 1822 (name not given) MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Prentiss, Samuel, 1782-1857; usage: Samuel Prentiss; Mr. Prentiss; note: admitted to Vt. bar 1802; lawyer at Montpelier; member Vt. Assembly; first associate justice and later chief justice of Vt. Supreme Court; member U.S. Senate; judge of U.S. District Court) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, March 9, 2016 (Prentiss, Samuel, (brother of John Holmes Prentiss), a Senator from Vermont; born in Stonington, Conn., March 31, 1782; moved to Northfield, Mass., in 1786; completed preparatory studies and was instructed in the classics by a private tutor; studied law in Northfield and in Brattleboro, Vt.; admitted to the bar in 1802 and practiced in Montpelier, Vt. 1803-1822; member, State house of representatives 1824-1825; associate justice of the supreme court of Vermont; elected chief justice of the State supreme court in 1829; elected in 1831 as an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States Senate; reelected as a Whig in 1837 and served from March 4, 1831, to April 11, 1842, when he resigned to accept a judicial assignment; chairman, Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Twenty-seventh Congress); originator and successful advocate of the law to suppress dueling in the District of Columbia; judge of the United States District Court of Vermont from 1842 until his death in Montpelier, Vt., January 15, 1857; interment in Green Mount Cemetery.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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