{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} <!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000692. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | image = | honorific_prefix = | name = Samuel Shepard Conner | honorific_suffix = | caption = | office = | state2 = [[Massachusetts]] | district2 = {{ushr|MA|19|19th}} | term_start2 = March 4, 1815 | term_end2 = March 3, 1817 | preceded2 = [[James Parker (Massachusetts politician)|James Parker]] | succeeded2 = [[Joshua Gage]] | order3 = | district3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | preceded3 = | succeeded3 = | office4 = | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | preceded4 = | succeeded4 = | office5 = | term_start5 = | term_end5 = | preceded5 = | succeeded5 = | office6 = | term_start6 = | term_end6 = | preceded6 = | succeeded6 = | birth_date = {{circa}} {{birth date text|1783}} | birth_place = [[Exeter, New Hampshire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1820|12|17|1783}} | death_place = [[Covington, Kentucky]] | resting_place = | spouse = Elizabeth Denniston<ref>{{Citation|last=Dexter |first= Franklin Bowditch |year = 1912 | title =Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Vol VI| page = 24 | publisher = Yale University Press| location = New Haven, CT }}</ref> | family = | party = [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]] | alma_mater = [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], [[Yale College]] | occupation = | profession = Attorney | signature = | website = | footnotes = | allegiance = {{flagicon|USA|1812}} United States | branch = [[United States Army]] | service_years = March 12,<ref name="Coues1895">{{Citation|last=Coues |first= Elliott |year = 1895 | title =The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike: to headwaters of the Mississippi River, Volume 1| page = ciii | publisher = Francis. P. Harper| location = New York, N.Y. }}</ref> 1812<ref name="Dexter1912">{{Citation|last=Dexter |first= Franklin Bowditch |year = 1912| title =Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Vol VI| page = 23 | publisher = Yale University Press| location = New Haven, CT }}</ref>-July 14, 1814 | rank = Lieutenant colonel | commands = Twenty-first Infantry<br/>Thirteenth Infantry | battles = [[War of 1812]]<br/>[[Battle of York]]<ref name="Coues1895" /> | awards = }}

'''Samuel Shepard Conner''' ({{circa|1783}} – December 17, 1820) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

Born in [[Exeter, New Hampshire]], Conner attended [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] in 1794. He was graduated from [[Yale College]] in 1806. He studied law.

Conner married Elizabeth Denniston of Albany, New York.<ref name="Dexter1912" /> He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] and commenced practice in [[Waterville, Maine]] (at that time a district of Massachusetts), in 1810. Conner served in the [[War of 1812]]. Conner was first a major of the Twenty-first Infantry. In the beginning of 1813 Conner served as [[aide-de-camp]] to General [[Henry Dearborn]].<ref name="Dexter1912" /> He was one of the American officers who accepted the British surrender at the [[Battle of York]].<ref name="Coues1895" /> He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry March 12, 1813. He resigned July 14, 1814. He resumed the practice of law in [[Waterville, Maine]].

Conner was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]] to the [[14th United States Congress|Fourteenth]] Congress (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817). He was appointed surveyor general of the [[Ohio land district]] in 1819. He died in [[Covington, Kentucky]], December 17, 1820.

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=19 | before=[[James Parker (Massachusetts politician)|James Parker]] | after=[[Joshua Gage]] | years= March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Major (United States)|Major]]<br/> of the Twenty-first Infantry|years=March 12, 1812 &ndash; March 12, 1813}}<ref name="Heitman1890">{{Citation|last= Heitman |first= Francis Bernard|year = 1890 | title =Historical register of the United States Army: from its organization| page = 60 | publisher = The National Tribune| location = Washington, D.C. }}</ref> {{s-aft|after=John Johnson<ref name="Heitman1890" />}} {{s-bef|before=}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Aide-de-camp]] to<br/>[[Henry Dearborn|General Henry Dearborn]]|years=1813 &ndash; 1813}} {{s-aft|after=}} {{s-bef|before=John Christie}}<ref>{{Citation|last= Powell |first= William Henry |year = 1900 | title =List of officers of the army of the United States from 1779 to 1900| page = 53 | publisher = L. R. Hamersly & Co.| location = New York, N.Y. }}</ref> {{s-ttl|title=[[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant colonel]]<br/> of the Thirteenth Infantry |years=March 12, 1813&ndash; July 14, 1814}} {{s-aft|after=R. N. Malcolm<ref>{{Citation|last= Heitman |first= Francis Bernard|year = 1890 | title =Historical register of the United States Army: from its organization| page = 53 | publisher = The National Tribune| location = Washington, D.C. }}</ref>}} {{end}}

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