{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Samuel Taggart | image = | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = {{ushr|MA|6|6th}} | term_start = March 4, 1803 | term_end = March 3, 1817 | preceded = [[Josiah Smith]] | succeeded = [[Samuel Clesson Allen]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1754|3|24}} | birth_place = [[Londonderry, New Hampshire|Londonderry]], [[Province of New Hampshire]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1825|4|25|1754|3|24|mf=yes}} | death_place = [[Colrain, Massachusetts|Colrain]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | resting_place = Chandler Hill Cemetery<br>Colrain, Massachusetts | party = [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]] | spouse = Elizabeth Duncan Taggart<br>Mary Ayer Taggart | relations = | children = Robert Taggart<br>Samuel D. Taggart<br>Daniel Taggart<br>Jean Taggart<br>Elizabeth Betsy Taggart<br>James Taggart<br>George Taggart<br>Mary Polly Taggart<br>Rufus Taggart<br>Esther Taggart<br>Lucy Taggart<br>Moses Taggart<br>Catherine Taggart<br>Mary Ann Taggart<br>William Ayer Taggart | alma_mater = [[Dartmouth College]], 1774 | occupation = Minister<br>Politician<br>Farmer | profession = [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] Minister | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Samuel Taggart''' (March 24, 1754 – April 25, 1825) was a [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] minister, an [[United States|American]] politician and a [[United States House of Representatives|U. S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
==Early life== The son of Matthew Taggart, he was born in [[Londonderry, New Hampshire|Londonderry]] in the [[Province of New Hampshire]] on March 24, 1754. Taggart completed preparatory studies, and graduated from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1774. He studied theology and was licensed to preach.
==Career== Ordained to the Presbyterian ministry<ref>{{cite book|last=Taggart|first=Samuel|title=Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Volumes 3-4|publisher=New Hampshire Historical Society|pages=110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GmASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110 |year=1832}}</ref> on February 19, 1777, Taggart was installed as pastor of a church in [[Colrain, Massachusetts]]. He then journeyed as a missionary through western [[New York (state)|New York]].
Taggart was elected as a [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]] to the [[8th United States Congress|Eighth]] and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving as a United States representative for the sixth district of the state of Massachusetts (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1817). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1816, but continued his service as pastor of the Colrain Presbyterian Church until October 28, 1818, when he resigned.<ref>{{cite book|last=Taggart|first=Samuel|title=Encyclopedia of the War of 1812|publisher=David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler Naval Institute Press|pages=498|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_c09EJgek50C&pg=PA499 |isbn=9781591143628|year=2004}}</ref>
==Death== Taggart died on his farm in Colrain, Massachusetts, on April 25, 1825 (age 71 years, 32 days). He is [[burial|interred]] at Chandler Hill Cemetery.
==Family life== Born son of James and Jean Anderson Taggart, he married Elizabeth Duncan in 1777 and they had twelve children: Robert, Samuel D., Daniel, Jean, Elizabeth Betsy, James, George, Mary Polly, Rufus, Esther, Lucy, and Moses. Elizabeth died on March 4, 1815, and he married Mary Ayer on March 25, 1816. They had three children: Catherine, Mary Ann, and William Ayer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Samuel Taggart|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mabiog/Franklin_Country/taggartsamuel.htm|publisher=RootsWeb.Ancestry.com|access-date=February 13, 2014}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *Taggart, Samuel. [http://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44806710.pdf “Letters of Samuel Taggart: Representative in Congress from 1803 to 1814: Part I, 1803-1807”] Edited by George H. Haynes. ''Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society'' '''33''' (April 1923): 113–226. *Taggart, Samuel. [http://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44806719.pdf “Letters of Samuel Taggart: Representative in Congress from 1803 to 1814: Part II, 1808-1814"] Edited by George H. Haynes. ''Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society'' '''33''' (October 1923): 297–438.
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==External links== * {{CongBio|T000012}} * {{Find a Grave|7480743}}
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