21 Facts About Samuel Hoar

Samuel Hoar was an American lawyer and politician.

Samuel Hoar was associated with the Federalist Party until its decline after the War of 1812.

Over his career, Hoar developed a reputation as a prominent Massachusetts anti-slavery politician and spokesperson.

Samuel Hoar became a leading member of the Massachusetts Whig Party, a leading and founding member of the Massachusetts Free Soil Party, and a founding member and chair of the committee that organized the founding convention for the Massachusetts Republican Party in 1854.

Samuel Hoar may be best known in American history for his 1844 trip to Charleston, South Carolina as an appointed Commissioner of the state of Massachusetts.

Samuel Hoar went to South Carolina to investigate and contest the laws of that state, which allowed the seizure of sailors who were free African Americans and placed into bondage, if such sailors disembarked from their ship.

Samuel Hoar was prevented from undertaking his appointed tasks by resolutions of the legislature and efforts of the governor of South Carolina, and was escorted back onto a ship by Charleston citizens fearing mob violence against the agent from Massachusetts.

News of the thwarting of Samuel Hoar inspired anti-slavery political reaction in Massachusetts.

Samuel Hoar was a born in the town of Lincoln, Massachusetts, and as an adult lived in neighboring Concord, Massachusetts.

Samuel Hoar graduated from Harvard College in 1802, and was admitted to the bar in 1805.

Samuel Hoar was delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1820.

Samuel Hoar was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1824.

Samuel Hoar served in the State senate in 1826,1832, and 1833.

Samuel Hoar was a Massachusetts delegate to the 1839 Whig national party convention.

Samuel Hoar was an expert on the laws pertaining to waterways, canals and maritime commerce.

The effective result was that Samuel Hoar was prevented from appearing before that state's courts to test the law.

Samuel Hoar was elected to the Massachusetts Governor's Council in 1845.

In 1848 Samuel Hoar chaired the Massachusetts Free Soil Party Convention in Worcester, and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1850, at the age of 72.

In 1855, at the age of 77, Samuel Hoar was appointed chair of a Massachusetts Republican committee to organize mass assemblage or convention, to consider and promote actions might be taken by Massachusetts citizens against the pro-slavery violence in the recent Kansas elections, with the intent of unifying with all anti-slavery citizens of Massachusetts in national anti-slavery efforts.

Samuel Hoar was a co-founder of the first Concord Academy, which had a 41-year existence.

Samuel and Sarah Hoar had five surviving children ; several led influential or prominent lives.