{{short description|American politician}} {{redirect|Samuel Gilmore|the footballer|Samuel Gilmore (footballer)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Samuel Louis Gilmore | image = Samuel L. Gilmore (U.S. congressman from Louisiana).jpg | caption = Frontispiece of 1911's ''Samuel Louis Gilmore, Late a Representative from Louisiana'' | state = Louisiana | district = 2nd | term_start = March 30, 1909 | term_end = July 18, 1910 | predecessor = Robert C. Davey | successor = H. Garland Dupré | birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|7|30}} | birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana | death_date = {{Death date and age|1910|7|18|1859|7|30}} | death_place = Abita Springs, Louisiana | resting_place = Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans | party = Democratic | children = 2, including Martha Gilmore Robinson }} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000223. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->
'''Samuel Louis Gilmore''' (July 30, 1859 – July 18, 1910) was a U.S. representative from Louisiana.
Gilmore was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was instructed by private tutors, graduating from the Central High School of New Orleans in 1874, from Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey, in 1877, and from the law department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University) at New Orleans in 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in New Orleans, Louisiana. From 1888 to 1896, Gilmore served as assistant city attorney. He was city attorney from 1896 until March 15, 1909, when he resigned. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908.
Gilmore was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert C. Davey and served from March 30, 1909, until his death in Abita Springs, Louisiana, on July 18, 1910. He was interred in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
His daughter, Martha Gilmore Robinson, was a women's rights and civic activist.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Martha Gilmore Robinson |encyclopedia=KnowLA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana |url=http://www.knowla.org/entry/854/ |access-date=2016-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118052522/http://www.knowla.org/entry/854/ |archive-date=2017-01-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His son, Samuel Louis Gilmore, Jr., was a poet and playwright, as well as an associate editor for ''The Double Dealer''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Samuel Louis Gilmore, Jr. Collection Finding Aid |url=http://library.loyno.edu/assets/handouts/archives/Collection_77_Gilmore.pdf |website=Special Collections & Archives, J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans |access-date=17 July 2018 |archive-date=28 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128071518/http://library.loyno.edu/assets/handouts/archives/Collection_77_Gilmore.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== *List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)
==References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|G000223}} *''[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t77s7tt1n;view=1up;seq=7 Samuel Louis Gilmore, Late a Representative from Louisiana]''. 1911.
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