Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician)

Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician)

Infobox_Congressman
name=Samuel Atkins Eliot


state=Massachusetts
district=1st
term=1849 – 1851
preceded=Robert C. Winthrop
succeeded=William Appleton
date of birth=birth date|1798|3|5|mf=y
place of birth=Boston, Massachusetts
date of death=death date and age|1862|1|29|1798|3|5|mf=y
place of death=Cambridge, Massachusetts
spouse=
profession=
religion=
party=Whig
order2=7th Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
term_start2=1837
term_end2=1839
predecessor2=Samuel T. Armstrong
successor2=Jonathan Chapman

Samuel Atkins Eliot, (who was a patriarch of a distinguished American family, the Eliot family and which included Thomas Hopkinson Eliot) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Eliot was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 5, 1798. He attended the Boston Latin School; graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1820. About 1826, he married Mary Lyman and had four daughters and two sons, including Charles William Eliot, a future President of Harvard University.

He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1834-1837; Mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1843-1844. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850 to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850; treasurer of Harvard University 1842-1853; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 29, 1862 and his body was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery.

References

* Image from Mayors of Boston: An Illustrated Epitome of who the Mayors Have Been and What they Have Done, Boston, MA: State Street Trust Company, Page 12, (1914).

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succession box
before = Samuel T. Armstrong
title = Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
years= 1837 - 1839
after = Jonathan Chapman
USRepSuccessionBox
state=Massachusetts
district=1
before=Robert C. Winthrop
after=William Appleton
years=August 22, 1850March 3, 1851

Persondata
NAME = Eliot, Samuel Atkins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = US politician
DATE OF BIRTH = 1798-03-05
PLACE OF BIRTH = Boston, Massachusetts, USA
DATE OF DEATH = 1862-01-29
PLACE OF DEATH = Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA


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