1. Samuel Edwards was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1819 to 1823 and from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1827.
Samuel Edwards studied law, was admitted to the Delaware County bar in 1806 and commenced practice in Chester, Pennsylvania.
In 1819, Samuel Edwards was elected as a Federalist to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and served until 1823.
Samuel Edwards trained under the leadership of Henry Clay but did not follow him into the Whig Party.
In 1825 Samuel Edwards was elected as a Jackson Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress.
Samuel Edwards served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Navy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses.
Samuel Edwards was a director of the Delaware County National Bank and the Delaware Mutual Insurance Company.
Samuel Edwards served as counsel for the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.
Samuel Edwards daughter married the General and frontiersman Edward Fitzgerald Beale and his granddaughter married the last Czarist Russian Ambassador to the United States, George Bakhmeteff.
Samuel Edwards died in Chester in 1850 and is interred in Chester Rural Cemetery.