{{Short description|American politician}} {{redirect|Samuel Powers|the ''Saved by the Bell'' character|List of Saved by the Bell characters#Samuel "Screech" Powers}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Samuel Leland Powers | image = Samuel Leland Powers (1848–1929).png | image_size = | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1901 | term_end1 = March 3, 1905 | predecessor1 = [[Charles F. Sprague]] | successor1 = [[John W. Weeks]] | constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 11th congressional district|11th district]] (1901–03)<br>[[Massachusetts's 12th congressional district|12th district]] (1903–05) | office2 = President of the<br/>Newton, Massachusetts City Council | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | preceded2 = | succeeded2 = | office3 = Member of the<br/>Newton, Massachusetts City Council | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | preceded3 = | succeeded3 = | office4 = Delegate to the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention<ref name="MassConCon_Souv 1919_p_85">{{Citation |last=Bridgman |first=Arthur Milnor |year=1919 |title=A Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston |page=85 |publisher=A. M. (Arthur Milnor) Bridgman |location=Stoughton, MA}}</ref> | term_start4 = June 6, 1917 | term_end4 = August 13, 1919 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1848|10|26}} | birth_place = [[Cornish, New Hampshire]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1929|11|30|1848|10|26}} | death_place = [[Newton, Massachusetts]], U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | other_party = | spouse = Eva C. Crowell<ref name="Eliot 1909">{{Citation |last=Eliot |first=Samuel Atkins |title=Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State |volume=1 |publisher=Massachusetts Biographical Society (Printed by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, MA |location=Boston, Massachusetts |year=1909}}</ref> | relations = | children = Leland Powers (born July 1, 1890)<ref name="Eliot 1909"/><ref name="Bacon_p356">{{Citation |last=Bacon |first=Edwin M. |author-link=Edwin Munroe Bacon |title=Boston of To-Day: A Glance at Its History and Characteristics |page=356 |publisher=Post Publishing Company |location=Boston, Ma |year=1892}}</ref> | alma_mater = [[Dartmouth College]] | occupation = | profession = Attorney<ref name="Bacon_p355">{{Citation |last=Bacon |first=Edwin M. |author-link=Edwin Munroe Bacon |title=Boston of To-Day: A Glance at Its History and Characteristics |page=355 |publisher=Post Publishing Company |location=Boston, Ma |year=1892}}</ref> | signature = Samuel Leland Powers Signature.png | website = | footnotes = Image of Samuel Leland Powers from ''Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts'' compl. by Richard Herndon and ed. by Edwin M. Bacon Published by New England Magazine, 1896. Page 912 }}

'''Samuel Leland Powers''' (October 26, 1848 – November 30, 1929) was a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

==Early life== Powers was born in [[Cornish, New Hampshire]] on October 26, 1848. He attended [[Kimball Union Academy]] and graduated from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1874. Powers studied law at the [[University of the City of New York]] Law School, and also in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]]. He was admitted to the bar in Worcester County in November, 1875<ref name="Bacon_p355"/> and at that time commenced practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], and moved to [[Newton, Massachusetts|Newton]].<ref name="Bacon 1916 405">{{Citation |last=Bacon |first=Edwin M. |author-link=Edwin Munroe Bacon |title=The Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis |page=405 |publisher=Book of Boston Co., (printed by The Pilgrim Press) |location=Boston, MA |year=1916}}</ref>

==Political career== Powers was a member of the [[Newton, Massachusetts|Newton]] City Council, also serving as its president. Powers was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1905).<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |pages=50–51 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904. He served as one of the [[Impeachment managers|managers]] appointed by the House of Representatives in 1905 to conduct the [[Federal impeachment trial in the United States|impeachment trial]] proceedings against [[Charles Swayne]], judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

He then resumed the practice of law in Boston, became a trustee of Dartmouth College 1905-1915, was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1915-1919, served in the State militia for ten years. He was a member of the [[Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts]].

In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention.<ref name="MassConCon_Journal 1919_p_60">{{Citation |year=1919 |title=Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |pages=7–8 |publisher=Wright & Potter printing co., state printers |location=Boston, MA}}</ref> In May 1917, Powers was elected to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, representing the Massachusetts Thirteenth Congressional District.<ref>{{Citation |year=1919 |title=Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |page=8 |publisher=Wright & Potter printing co., state printers |location=Boston, MA}}</ref>

Powers was a member of the University, Exchange, Newton and Atlantic Conference Clubs, among others and was the president of the Boston Art Club.<ref name="Bacon 1916 405"/> and was a trustee of the board of public control for the operation of the Boston Elevated Railway 1918-1928, serving as chairman 1923-1928.

==Death== Powers died in Newton on November 30, 1929. His interment was in Newton Cemetery in Newton Center.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

==References== <references/>

==External links== * {{Find a Grave|7118160}} * {{CongBio|P000492}}

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