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American politician
Samuel Herrick
(April 14, 1779 ? June 4, 1852) was a
United States Representative
from
Ohio
.
Born in
Amenia, New York
, Herrick pursued an academic course. He studied law in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
, was
admitted to the bar
in 1805 and commenced practice in
St. Clairsville, Ohio
. He moved to
Zanesville, Ohio
, in 1810. He was appointed prosecuting attorney of
Guernsey County
in 1810 and also
United States district attorney
. In 1814 he was appointed
prosecuting attorney
of
Licking County
and commissioned brigadier general of the Ohio Militia.
Herrick was elected as a
Democratic-Republican
to the
Fifteenth Congress
and reelected to the
Sixteenth Congress
(March 4, 1817 ? March 3, 1821). He served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Fifteenth Congress).
Herrick was not a candidate for reelection in 1820. He continued the practice of law. He served as
presidential elector
on the
Jackson
and
Calhoun
ticket in 1828. He was appointed United States district attorney for Ohio in 1829 but resigned June 30, 1830. He died in Zanesville, June 4, 1852, and was interred in City (now Greenwood) Cemetery.
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