{{short description|American politician (1815–1880)}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Samuel Lilly |image = |state = New Jersey |district = 3rd |party = Democratic |term_start = March 4, 1853 |term_end = March 3, 1855 |preceded = Isaac Wildrick |succeeded = James Bishop |birth_date = October 28, 1815 |birth_place = Geneva, New York, U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|1880|4|3|1815|10|28}} |death_place = Lambertville, New Jersey, U.S. |resting_place = Mount Hope Cemetery<br />Lambertville, New Jersey, U.S. |spouse = |profession = {{hlist|Politician|physician}} }} '''Samuel Lilly''' (October 28, 1815 – April 3, 1880) was an American Democratic Party politician, who represented {{ushr|New Jersey|3}} in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1853 to 1855.

==Early life and career== Samuel Lilly was born on October 28, 1815, in Geneva, New York. He moved to Lambertville, New Jersey, in 1829. He attended P. O. Studdiford's classical school. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on March 31, 1837.<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000310 |title=Lilly, Samuel |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2024-11-06}}</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-samuel-lilly-4-apr-1/158528010/ |title=Samuel Lilly |date=1880-04-04 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-11-06}}{{Open access}}</ref>

==Career== After graduating, Lilly practiced medicine in Lambertville. He was elected as the first Mayor of Lambertville, New Jersey serving in office from 1849 to 1852.<ref name="bio"/>

Lilly was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855. In Congress, he was chairman of the committee on expenditures in the Post Office Department.<ref name="bio"/>

Lilly served as director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hunterdon County for eight years, and was brigadier general of the New Jersey Militia. He was appointed by President James Buchanan as consul general of the United States to British India, with residence in Calcutta, from January 3, 1861, and served until July 4, 1862, when he resigned.<ref name="bio"/>

Lilly was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hunterdon County from 1868–1873, and was one of the members of the board of managers of the New Jersey Insane Asylum in 1871. He was a judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, then the state's highest court, and also a member of the State board of pardons from 1873 until his death in Lambertville on April 3, 1880.<ref name="bio"/> He was president of the New Jersey Medical Society and the District Medical Society of Hunterdon County.<ref name="obit"/> He was commissioner of the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum.<ref name="obit"/>

==Personal life== Lilly married his first wife in October 1839. He married his second wife on February 12, 1860. Both of his wives predeceased him.<ref name="obit"/>

Lilly died on April 3, 1880, in Lambertville. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in Lambertville.<ref name="bio"/>

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==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} {{CongBio|L000310}} *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#R9M0J47L6 Samuel Lilly] at The Political Graveyard *{{Find a Grave|7096409|Samuel Lilly}}

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