Samuel Thatcher

{{Short description|American politician (1776–1872)}} {{Cleanup Congress bio}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | image=Portrait of Samuel Thatcher.jpg | image_size=150px | caption=

| office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = December 6, 1802 | term_end1 = March 3, 1805 | predecessor1 = [[Silas Lee]] | successor1 = [[Orchard Cook]] | constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 12th congressional district|12th district]] (1802–1803)<br>[[Massachusetts's 16th congressional district|16th district]] (1803–1805)

| office2=Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term2=1801-1811

| birth_name= | birth_date ={{Birth date |1776|7|1}} | birth_place =[[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], [[British America]] | death_date={{death date and age|1872|7|18|1776|7|1}} | death_place= [[Bangor, Maine|Bangor]], [[Maine]], U.S. | party = | resting_place = | alma_mater =[[Harvard College]] | profession =lawyer }} '''Samuel Thatcher''' (July 1, 1776 – July 18, 1872) was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from Massachusetts.

He was born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] on July 1, 1776; was graduated from Harvard University in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in [[New Gloucester, Maine|New Gloucester]] (then in Massachusetts' [[District of Maine]]); moved to [[Warren, Maine|Warren]] in 1800; member of the Massachusetts house of representatives 1801–1811; was elected as a Federalist to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Lee; reelected to the Eighth Congress and served from December 6, 1802, to March 3, 1805; sheriff of [[Lincoln County, Maine|Lincoln County]], 1814–1821; member of the Maine house of representatives in 1824; moved to [[Bangor, Maine]], in 1860, and died there July 18, 1872; interment in Bangor's [[Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)|Mount Hope Cemetery]].

==External links== * {{CongBio|T000143}} * {{Find a Grave}}

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