Samuel Augustus Bridges, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSamuel Augustus Bridges
American politician
Date of Birth: 27-Jan-1802
Place of Birth: Colchester, Connecticut, United States
Date of Death: 14-Jan-1884
Profession: lawyer, politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Samuel Augustus Bridges
- Samuel Augustus Bridges (January 27, 1802 – January 14, 1884) was a Democratic member of the U.S.
- House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Samuel A.
- Bridges was born in Colchester, Connecticut.
- He pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1826.
- He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
- He moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1830, where he continued the practice of law.
- He served as town clerk from 1837 to 1842, and deputy attorney general of the State for Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, from 1837 to 1844.
- He was a delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1841. Bridges was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W.
- Hornbeck.
- He was not a candidate for renomination in 1848.
- He was again elected to the Thirty-third Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854.
- He resumed the practice of law, and was again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress.
- He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878.
- He continued the practice of law in Allentown where he died in 1884.
- Interment in Union Cemetery.
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| Date of birth/death | 18 May 1822 | 15 January 1896 | |
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| Work period | from 1844 until circa 1887 | ||
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| Date of birth/death | 10 August 1855 | 26 March 1932 / 23 March 1932 | |
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Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04420. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 764 <P&P>[P&P]
License: PD-Brady-Handy
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