| 词条 | Samuel Prentiss |
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| name = Samuel Prentiss | image = SPrentiss.jpg | image_size = 200px | office1 = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont | appointer1 = John Tyler | term_start1 = April 8, 1842 | term_end1 = January 15, 1857 | predecessor1 = Elijah Paine | successor1 = David Allen Smalley | jr/sr2 = United States Senator | state2 = Vermont | term2 = March 4, 1831 – April 11, 1842 | predecessor2 = Dudley Chase | successor2 = Samuel C. Crafts | office3 = Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court | term3 = 1829–1830 | predecessor3 = Richard Skinner | successor3 = Titus Hutchinson | office4 = Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court | term4 = 1825–1829 | predecessor4 = Joel Doolittle | successor4 = Titus Hutchinson | office5 = Member of the Vermont House of Representatives | term5 = 1824–1825 | predecessor5 = Araunah Waterman | successor5 = William Upham | party = Federalist National Republican Whig | birth_date = {{birth date|1782|3|31}} | birth_place = Stonington, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1857|1|15|1782|3|31}} | death_place = Montpelier, Vermont, U.S. | spouse = Lucretia Houghton Prentiss | children = 12 | profession = Lawyer Politician Judge }} Samuel Prentiss (March 31, 1782{{spaced ndash}}January 15, 1857) was a Vermont attorney, judge, and politician. He served as a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, a United States Senator from Vermont and later a United States federal judge. Early lifePrentiss was born in Stonington, Connecticut on March 31, 1782.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} The fourth in his family to be named Samuel Prentiss, he was the son of Lucretia (Holmes) Prentiss and Samuel Prentiss III (1759-1818), a physician who served as an army surgeon during the American Revolution.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}}{{sfn|DAR Lineage Book|page=273}} His grandfather, Colonel Samuel Prentiss II (1736-1809), was also a veteran of the Revolution.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}}{{sfn|DAR Lineage Book|page=273}} The Dr. Samuel Prentiss family moved to Worcester, and then to Northfield in 1786, and the younger Samuel Prentiss completed his education in the schools of Northfield and with private tutoring in the classics from Reverend Samuel C. Allen.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} Prentiss studied law in Northfield with attorney Samuel Vose,{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} and in Brattleboro, Vermont with attorney John W. Blake;{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} he was admitted to the bar in 1802 and began a practice in Montpelier.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} Among the lawyers who received their education and training in his office was William Upham, who later served in the United States Senate.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|page=454}} Prentiss was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1820 to 1827;{{sfn|General Catalogue of Dartmouth College|page=67}} he received the honorary degrees of A.M.{{sfn|General Catalogue of Dartmouth College|page=67}} and LL.D.{{sfn|General Catalogue of Dartmouth College|page=67}} from Dartmouth in 1817 and 1832.{{sfn|General Catalogue of Dartmouth College|page=67}} CareerIn addition to practicing law, Prentiss became active in politics, first as a Federalist,{{sfn|"Vermont Election Results"|page=2}} and later as a National Republican,{{sfn|Annual Report of the American Historical Association|page=507}} Anti-Jacksonian{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1762}} and Whig.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1762}} He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1816,{{sfn|"Vermont Election Results"|page=2}} and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1824-1825.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} From 1825 to 1829, Prentiss was an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court;{{sfn|History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical|page=124}} he was chief justice from 1829 to 1830.{{sfn|History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical|page=124}} In 1831, Prentiss was elected to the U.S. Senate as an Anti-Jacksonian.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1762}} He was reelected as a Whig in 1837, and served from March 4, 1831 to April 11, 1842, when he resigned to accept appointment as a federal judge.{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1762}} While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (28th Congress),{{sfn|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|page=1762}} and he was the sponsor of the law to suppress dueling in the District of Columbia.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} On April 8, 1842, Prentiss was nominated by President John Tyler to the seat on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont vacated by the death of Elijah Paine.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} Prentiss was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 8, 1842, and received his commission the same day.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} He served on the court until his death.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} Death and burialPrentiss died in Montpelier on January 18, 1857.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} He was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier.{{sfn|"Prominent People Buried in Vermont:Samuel Prentiss"}} FamilyIn 1804, Prentiss married Lucretia Houghton (1786-1855) of Northfield, Massachusetts.{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|pages=447-451}} They were the parents of 12 children:{{sfn|The History of the Town of Montpelier|page=451}}
Theodore Prentiss was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Prentiss's brother John Holmes Prentiss was a United States Representative from New York. ReferencesSourcesBooks
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