Samuel Galloway
Samuel Galloway | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's12thdistrict | |
| In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 | |
| Preceded by | Edson B. Olds |
| Succeeded by | Samuel S. Cox |
| 8thOhio Secretary of State | |
| In office 1844–1850 | |
| Governor | Mordecai Bartley William Bebb Seabury Ford |
| Preceded by | John Sloane |
| Succeeded by | Henry W. King |
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| Born | March 20, 1811 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| Died | April 5, 1872(aged 61) Columbus, Ohio |
| Resting place | Green Lawn Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican Whig |
| Alma mater | Miami University Princeton Theological Seminary |
Samuel Galloway(March 20, 1811 – April 5, 1872) was aU.S. RepresentativefromOhio.
Born inGettysburg, Pennsylvania,Galloway attended local public schools. He moved to Ohio and settled inHighland Countyin 1830. He graduated fromMiami UniversityinOxford, Ohio,in 1833. Galloway then attendedPrinceton Theological Seminaryin 1835 and 1836. He taught school inHamilton, Ohio,1836 and 1837, atMiami Universityin 1837 and 1838, andHanover College,Indiana, in 1839 and 1840.
After studying law, he wasadmitted to the barin 1843 and commenced practice inChillicothe, Ohio.He was Ohio'sSecretary of Statein 1844, and moved to Columbus that same year. He served as delegate to theWhigNational Convention in 1848.
Galloway was elected as anOpposition Partycandidate to theThirty-fourth Congress(March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to theThirty-fifthCongress and for election in 1858 to theThirty-sixthCongress. He resumed the practice of law.
During theCivil War,he was appointed as thejudge advocateofCamp ChaseinColumbus, Ohio,by PresidentAbraham Lincoln.Following the war, Galloway was appointed by PresidentAndrew Johnsonto investigate conditions in the South during the period ofReconstruction.He was nominated at the Republican state convention in 1867 forLieutenant Governor of Ohio,but declined.[1]
Presidential electorforGrant/Colfaxin 1868.[2]
He was for thirteen years a ruling elder of thePresbyterianChurch.[3]
Galloway died inColumbus, Ohio,April 5, 1872, and was interred inGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
Notes
[edit]- ^Smith 1898:236, 238
- ^Smith 1898:260
- ^Wilson, J. G.;Fiske, J.,eds. (1900)..Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.New York: D. Appleton.
Sources
[edit]- United States Congress."Samuel Galloway (id: G000027)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898).History of the Republican Party in Ohio.Vol. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.
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