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词条 Samuel Cushman
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  1. Early life and career

  2. Personal life

  3. References

  4. Further reading

  5. External links

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| name =Samuel Cushman
| image name = Image:Cushman23.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1783|06|8}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1851|05|20|1783|06|8|mf=yes}}
| death_place ={{nowrap|Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.}}
| resting_place=Proprietors’ Burying Ground
|office = Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
| term_start = 1833
| term_end = 1835
| predecessor =
| successor =
| state2 = New Hampshire
| district2 = At-large
| term2 = March 4, 1835 – March 4, 1839
| preceded2 = Joseph M. Harper
| succeeded2 = Ira Allen Eastman
| party = Jacksonian
Democratic
| religion =
| profession= Attorney
Politician
| spouse = Maria Jane Salter
}}

Samuel Cushman (June 8, 1783 – May 20, 1851) was an American attorney and politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in the 1800s.

Early life and career

Cushman was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the son of Job Cushman and Priscilla Riple Cushman. He attended the common schools, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He began the practice of law in Portsmouth.

He served as judge of the Portsmouth police court and as county treasurer from 1823 to 1828.[1] He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835.[2] Cushman was nominated by President Andrew Jackson to be United States attorney for the district of New Hampshire but was not confirmed.[3]

He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress, serving from March 4, 1835 - March 4, 1839.[4] Cushman served as chairman of the Committee on Commerce during the Twenty-fifth Congress.[5] After leaving Congress, he was a United States Navy officer at Portsmouth from 1845 to 1849.[6]

He died in Portsmouth in 1851[7] and was interred in the Proprietors’ Burying Ground.[8]

Personal life

Cushman married Elsa Ann Salter in May 1813. They had eleven children. Cushman's mother died in July 1831.[9]

References

1. ^{{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits|year=1909|publisher=American Publishers' Association|page=183|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JL3TAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA183 }}
2. ^{{cite book|last=United States. Congress|title=A biographical congressional directory, 1774 to 1903: The Continental Congress: September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, inclusive. The United States Congress: the First Congress to the Fifty-seventh Congress, March 4, 1903|year=1903|publisher=Govt print. off.|page=485|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfIUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA485 }}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Cole|first=Donald B. and Harvard University Press|title=Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire|year=1999|publisher=iUniverse|page=88|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3KAqT8Dz70C&pg=PA88 }}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Polk|first=James Knox|title=Correspondence of James K. Polk: 1839-1841|year=1979|publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b_-40NuJ2HcC&pg=PA89 }}
5. ^{{cite book|last=Prime|first=Samuel Irenæus|title=The life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D.: inventor of the electro-magnetic recording telegraph|year=1875|publisher=D. Appleton and company|page=344|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qpQNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA344 }}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Preble|first=George Henry|title=History of the United States Navy-yard, Portsmouth, N. H.|year=1892|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtN3Rs69mUAC&pg=PA128 }}
7. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/justices/cushman.html|title=Publications - Descriptions of Portraits of Justices and Others at the New Hampshire Supreme Court Building Concord, New Hampshire |publisher= New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources|accessdate= December 12, 2013}}
8. ^{{cite book|last=Spencer|first=Thomas E.|title=Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated|year=1998|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|page=222|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWao2lIGTEC&pg=PA222 }}
9. ^{{cite web|url= http://records.ancestry.com/Samuel_Cushman_records.ashx?pid=43183610|title=Samuel Cushman|publisher= ancestry.com|accessdate= December 12, 2013}}

Further reading

  • "Speech of Mr. Cushman, of New Hampshire" by Samuel Cushman, 1839.

External links

{{CongBio|C001021}}
  • Hon. Samuel Cushman, Portsmouth, N.H. Aged 66


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