Samuel Prentiss was an associate justice and chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, a United States senator from Vermont and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.
19 Facts About Samuel Prentiss
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Samuel Prentiss studied law in Northfield with attorney Samuel Vose, and Brattleboro, Vermont, with attorney John W Blake in 1802.
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Samuel Prentiss was admitted to the bar and practiced in Montpelier, Vermont, from 1803 to 1824.
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Samuel Prentiss was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1824 to 1825.
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Samuel Prentiss was an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1825 to 1829, and chief justice from 1829 to 1830.
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Samuel Prentiss was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1816.
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Samuel Prentiss was elected in 1831 to the United States Senate as a National Republican.
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Samuel Prentiss was reelected as a Whig in 1837 and served from March 4,1831, to April 11,1842, when he resigned to accept a judicial appointment.
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Samuel Prentiss was Chairman of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office for the 27th United States Congress.
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Samuel Prentiss was nominated by President John Tyler on April 8,1842, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont vacated by Judge Elijah Paine.
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Samuel Prentiss was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 8,1842, and received his commission the same day.
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Samuel Prentiss's service terminated on January 15,1857, due to his death in Montpelier.
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Samuel Prentiss was interred at Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier.
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Samuel Prentiss was the fourth in his line to be named Samuel Prentiss.
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Samuel Prentiss was the second of nine children born to Dr Samuel Prentiss III and his wife Lucretia.
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John Holmes Samuel Prentiss served two terms as a US congressman from New York.
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The Samuel Prentiss family were descendants of Captain Thomas Prentice, who emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1640s and served as a captain during King Philip's War.
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Samuel Prentiss IV married Lucretia Houghton, of Northfield, in 1804.
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Samuel Prentiss was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1820 to 1827; he received the honorary degrees of Artium Magister and Legum Doctor from Dartmouth in 1817 and 1832.