Samuel Shellabarger (congressman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Shellabarger (congressman)

U.S. Representative from Ohio

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1817

Place of Birth: Enon, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1896

Profession: lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Samuel Shellabarger (congressman)

  • Samuel Shellabarger (December 10, 1817 – August 7, 1896) was a Republican U.S.
  • Representative from Ohio. Born near Enon, Ohio, Shellabarger attended the county schools and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1841.
  • He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Springfield, Ohio, in 1846.
  • He served as a member of the State house of representatives in 1852 and 1853. Shellabarger was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863).
  • He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress.
  • Shellabarger was elected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1869).
  • He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1868.
  • He served as U.S.
  • Minister to Portugal from April 21 to December 31, 1869. Shellabarger was again elected to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873).
  • During that term he served as chairman of the Committee on Commerce.
  • Perhaps the most historically memorable moment of his life came early in this term when he drafted an anti-Ku Klux Klan bill—sometimes referred to as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
  • After passage by both houses of Congress, the bill was signed into law by President Ulysses S.
  • Grant on April 20.
  • This bill was very instrumental in giving Grant the tools he needed to demolish the first-era KKK.
  • Shellabarger's KKK bill was the second introduced in Congress that year; an earlier bill drafted by Benjamin Butler had failed to garner sufficient votes for passage.Shellabarger was not a candidate for renomination in 1872.
  • He served as a member of the United States Civil Service Commission in 1874 and 1875.
  • Shellabarger continued the practice of law until his death in Washington, D.C., August 7, 1896.
  • He was interred in Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio. He is the grandfather of Samuel Shellabarger (1888–1954), American educator and author.

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