{{short description|American politician (1870–1941)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Samuel Chapman Massingale | image = Sam C. Massingale.jpg | state = Oklahoma | district = 7th | term_start = January 3, 1935 | term_end = January 17, 1941 | preceded = James V. McClintic | succeeded = Victor Wickersham | office2 = Member of the Oklahoma Territorial Council from the 12th district | term_start2 = 1903 | term_end2 = 1905 | predecessor2 = A. G. Updegraff | successor2 = B. N. Woodson | birth_date = {{birth-date|August 2, 1870}} | death_date = {{death-date and age|January 17, 1941|August 2, 1870}} | birth_place = Quitman, Mississippi, United States | death_place = Washington, D.C. | spouse = Anna Canaday Massingale | party = Democratic | alma_mater = University of Mississippi at Oxford <!--Military service--> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagicon|United States of America}} United States of America | branch = {{flag|United States Army}} | service_years = | rank = Private | unit = Company D, Second Texas Infantry | commands = | battles = Spanish–American War | awards = }} '''Samuel Chapman Massingale''' (August 2, 1870 – January 17, 1941) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 7th congressional district from 1935 to 1941.
==Biography== Born in Quitman, Mississippi, Massingale was the son of George M. and Martha McGowan Massingale, and attended the public schools and the University of Mississippi at Oxford where he studied law.
==Career== Massingale moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1887 and was employed for a short time as a section hand while he continued to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Cordell, Oklahoma, in 1900.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sam C. Massingale|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000231|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=4 June 2013}}</ref>
During the Spanish–American War, Massingale served as a private in Company D, Second Texas Infantry. He served as a member of the Oklahoma Territorial Council in 1902. The following year he married Anna Canaday, and they had four children. He ran unsuccessfully for the Sixtieth Congress in 1906.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sam C. Massingale|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MA036.html|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|access-date=4 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718114315/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MA036.html|archive-date=18 July 2010}}</ref>
Massingale was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his death on January 17, 1941.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sam C. Massingale|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/samuel_massingale/407249|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|access-date=4 June 2013}}</ref>
==Death== Massingale died in Washington, D.C., January 17, 1941 (age 70 years, 168 days). He is interred in Lawnview Cemetery, Cordell, Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sam C. Massingale|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/masone-masten.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|access-date=4 June 2013}}</ref>
==See also== * List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{CongBio|M000231}} * {{Find a Grave|6876767}}
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