Green Berry Samuels
Green B. Samuels | |
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Judge on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals | |
In office 1852 – January 5, 1859 | |
Circuit Judge for Virgini'as 14th Circuit Court | |
In office December 11, 1850-1852 | |
Delegate to the | |
In office October 14, 1850 – December 10, 1850 | |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 16th district | |
In office March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841 | |
Preceded by | Isaac S. Pennybacker |
Succeeded by | William A. Harris |
Personal details | |
Born | Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States | February 1, 1806
Died | January 5, 1859 Richmond, Virginia | (aged 52)
Resting place | Woodstock, Virginia |
Nationality | American |
Spouse(s) | Maria Gore Coffman |
Children | 5 |
Profession | Law |
Green Berry Samuels (February 1, 1806 – January 5, 1859) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and judge.
Early life[]
Born in Shenandoah County, Virginia on February 6, 1806, Green Berry Samuels was a son of Isaac Samuels (1762–1819) and Elizabeth Pennybacker (1766–1824). He received a private classical education, then he studied law under Judge Henry St. George Tucker.[1]
On April 12, 1831 Samuels married Maria Gore Coffman and they had 5 children who reached adulthood: Elizabeth Margaret Samuels, Isaac Pennybacker Samuels, Anna Maria Samuels, Green Berry Samuels, Jr., and Samuel Coffman Samuels.[1]
Career[]
Samuels was admitted to the bar in 1827 and began his legal practice at Woodstock, Virginia, the Shenandoah county seat. Voters of Virginia's 16th congressional district elected him as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841), where he succeeded his cousin Isaac Samuels Pennybacker, a congressman and later senator from Virginia.[1] However, Samuels chose not to see re-election, so William A. Harris succeeded him until population losses in the next census caused Virginia to lose that congressional seat.
Voters from Shenandoah, Hardy and Warren Counties elected Samuels as one of their four delegates to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, alongside William Seymour, Giles Cook and Samuel C. Williams, but Samuels resigned on December 10, 1850, after legislators elected him a judge of the circuit court.[2] Mark Bird then succeeded him at the convention. Two years later, in 1852, legislators elected Samuels to the Court of Appeals.[1]
Death[]
Green Berry Samuels died suddenly in Richmond, Virginia on January 5, 1859 at the age of 52. His remains were returned to Woodstock for burial in the Old Lutheran Graveyard (Emanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery).[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Congressional Biographical Directory, "Green Samuels"
- ^ Cynthia Miller Leonard, Virginia's General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond, Virginia State Library 1978) p. 441 and note
Bibliography[]
- "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present". bioguide.congress.gov. United States Congress. Archived from the original on April 23, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
- Pulliam, David Loyd (1901). The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time. John T. West, Richmond. ISBN 978-1-2879-2059-5.
- 1806 births
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
- Justices of the Virginia Supreme Court
- Virginia lawyers
- Virginia state court judges
- 1859 deaths
- People from Shenandoah County, Virginia
- Virginia Democrats
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century American politicians
- 19th-century American judges
- 19th-century American lawyers