{{short description|American politician}} <!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000087. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | name = Samuel Hurd Walley | image = | image_size = 190px | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 4th congressional district|4th]] | party = [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] | term = March 4, 1853 &ndash; March 3, 1855 | preceded = [[Lorenzo Sabine]] | succeeded = [[Linus B. Comins|Linus Bacon Comins]] | title2 = [[Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives|Speaker]] of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term_start2 = 1844 | term_end2 = 1846 | predecessor2 = [[Thomas H. Kinnicutt|Thomas Kinnicut]] | successor2 = Ebenezer Bradbury | title3 = Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives<br>Norfolk District | term_start3 = 1840 | term_end3 = 1846 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | title4 = Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives<br>Norfolk District | term_start4 = 1836 | term_end4 = 1836 | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | birth_date = {{birth date|1805|8|31|mf=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1877|8|27|1805|8|31|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts]], US | spouse = Mehetable Sumner Bates, d. December 2, 1853.<ref name="Field1863">{{Citation |last=Field |first=David D.| title =Brief memoirs of the members of the class graduated at Yale College in September, 1802.| page = 65 | publisher = New England Historic Genealogical Society | location = Boston, MA | year = 1863}}</ref><br>Ann Gray Hawes<ref>{{Citation | title = Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1871-1880 |volume= 7| page = 259 | publisher = New England Historic Genealogical Society | location = Boston, MA | year = 1907}}</ref> | children = Henshaw Bates Walley, William Phillips Walley | alma_mater = Harvard, 1826 | occupation = | profession = Attorney, Banker | footnotes = }}

'''Samuel Hurd Walley''' (August 31, 1805 &ndash; August 27, 1877) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as Speaker of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] and as a member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

==Early life== Walley was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] to Samuel Hall Walley and Miriam (Phillips) Walley.<ref>{{Citation |last = Winsor | first = Justin | title = The Memorial History of Boston By Justin Winsor Volume II The Provincial Period | page = 552 | publisher = Ticknor and Company | location = Boston, MA | year = 1886}}</ref> Walley was the grandson of [[William Phillips, Jr.]], Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1812 to 1823,<ref>{{Citation |last = Peabody| first = Andrew Preston | title = Harvard graduates whom I have known | page = 214 | publisher = The Riverside Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 1890}}</ref> and was a descendant of Rev. [[George Phillips (Watertown)|George Phillips]] of [[Watertown, Massachusetts|Watertown]], the progenitor of the New England Phillips family in America.<ref>Bond, Henry and Jones, Horatio. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston: To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1860, pgs. 872-882</ref>

==Family== Walley was married twice. Walley married his first wife Mehetable Sumner Bates on October 14, 1829, they had ten children, Mehetable Walley died December 2, 1853.<ref name="Field1863" /> Walley's second wife was Ann Gray Hawes.<ref>{{Citation | title = Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1871-1880 v. 7| page = 259 | publisher = New England Historic Genealogical Society | location = Boston, MA | year = 1907}}</ref>

==Education== Walley attended the common schools and [[Phillips Academy]], [[Andover, Massachusetts]]. Walley attended [[Yale College]] in 1822. Walley entered Harvard at the beginning of his sophomore year.<ref name="Peabody1890">{{Citation |last = Peabody| first = Andrew Preston | title = Harvard graduates whom I have known | page = 215 | publisher = The Riverside Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 1890}}</ref> Walley graduated from [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1826.

==Business career== After he left college Walley studied law and was admitted<ref name="Peabody1890" /> to the Suffolk bar in 1831. Walley practiced in Boston and Roxbury.

Walley engaged in banking, he took a prominent part in the organization of the Suffolk Savings Bank.<ref name="Peabody1890" /> Walley was involved in the creation of the Revere National Bank, and from 1870 until his death he served as its first President.<ref name="Peabody1890" />

Walley was involved in railroad development he was the Treasurer of the Vermont Central Railroad, treasurer of the Ogdensburg railroad and a promoter and first treasurer of the Wisconsin Central Railroad.<ref name="Peabody1890" />

==Political offices== Walley served as member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1836 and 1840–1846, serving as speaker 1844–1846. Walley served as a corporate member of the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] 1848–1867.

Walley was elected as a [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] to the [[33rd United States Congress|Thirty-third]] Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855). Walley was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the [[34th United States Congress|Thirty-fourth]] Congress. Walley was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1855.

==Death == Walley died at [[Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts]], on August 27, 1877.

==See also== * [[65th Massachusetts General Court (1844)]]

==References== {{CongBio|W000087}}

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