# Samuel Earle

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{{Short description|American politician}}
{{about||then American engineering professor|Samuel Broadus Earle}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Samuel Earle
| image=
| state1=[South Carolina](/source/South_Carolina)
| district1=[6th](/source/South_Carolina's_6th_Congressional_District)
| term_start1= March 4, 1795
| term_end1 = March 3, 1797
| predecessor1=[Andrew Pickens](/source/Andrew_Pickens_(congressman))
| successor1=[William Smith](/source/William_Smith_(South_Carolina_representative))
| office2 = Member of the [South Carolina House of Representatives](/source/South_Carolina_House_of_Representatives)
| term2 = 1784–1788
| birth_date= {{birth date|1760|11|28}}
| birth_place=[Frederick County](/source/Frederick_County%2C_Virginia), [Virginia Colony](/source/Colony_of_Virginia), [British America](/source/British_America)
| death_date= {{death date and age|1833|11|24|1760|11|28}}
| death_place=[Pendleton District](/source/Pendleton_District%2C_South_Carolina), [South Carolina](/source/South_Carolina), U.S.
| resting_place = Beaverdam Cemetery, [Oconee County, South Carolina](/source/Oconee_County%2C_South_Carolina)
| spouse=
| profession=
| party=[Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States))
| allegiance = [United States of America](/source/United_States_of_America)
| battles = [American Revolutionary War](/source/American_Revolutionary_War)
| unit = [5th South Carolina Regiment](/source/5th_South_Carolina_Regiment)<br>[1st South Carolina Regiment](/source/1st_South_Carolina_Regiment)
| rank = [Captain](/source/Captain_(United_States))
| service_years = 1777–1782
}}

'''Samuel Earle''' (November 28, 1760{{spnd}}November 24, 1833) was a [United States representative](/source/United_States_representative) from [South Carolina](/source/South_Carolina). Born in [Frederick County](/source/Frederick_County%2C_Virginia) in the [Colony of Virginia](/source/Colony_of_Virginia), he moved to the [Province of South Carolina](/source/Province_of_South_Carolina) in 1774; he participated in the [American Revolutionary War](/source/American_Revolutionary_War), entering the service as an [ensign](/source/ensign_(rank)) in the [5th South Carolina Regiment](/source/5th_South_Carolina_Regiment) in 1777 and leaving as captain of a company of [ranger](/source/Raid_(military))s in 1782. He was a member of the [South Carolina House of Representatives](/source/South_Carolina_House_of_Representatives) from 1784 to 1788, and was a delegate to the State convention that ratified the [U.S. Constitution](/source/U.S._Constitution) on May 12, 1788; he was a delegate to the [South Carolina Constitutional Convention](/source/South_Carolina_Constitutional_Convention) in 1790.

Earle was elected as a [Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican) to the Fourth Congress, serving from March 4, 1795 to March 3, 1797. He died in [Pendleton District, South Carolina](/source/Pendleton_District%2C_South_Carolina), on November 24, 1833, four days shy of his 73rd birthday; interment was in Beaverdam Cemetery, [Oconee County, South Carolina](/source/Oconee_County%2C_South_Carolina).

[Elias Earle](/source/Elias_Earle), Samuel's uncle, and [John Baylis Earle](/source/John_Baylis_Earle), his cousin, were also U.S. Representatives from South Carolina.

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| state=South Carolina
| district=6
| before=[Andrew Pickens](/source/Andrew_Pickens_(congressman))
| after= [William Smith](/source/William_Smith_(South_Carolina_representative))
| years=1795–1797
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