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Life

Samuel Davis Shannon was born on May 3, 1833, in South Carolina and during the Civil War married Elizabeth Peton Giles. In December 1860 in joined the Confederate Army and was given the rank of captain and during the

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he served on the staff of Major General

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. Following the Civil War he became a journalist, but later moved to Denver, Colorado due to poor health and then to Cheyenne, Wyoming. On April 9, 1887, he was appointed by President

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as Secretary of the Wyoming Territory and served until July 1, 1889. Following his tenure he returned to the eastern United States and was later placed into a Soldier's Home in

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, where he died from Bright's disease on September 9, 1896.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shannon, Samuel D. 1830s births 1896 deaths 19th-century American politicians Confederate States Army officers People from Wyoming Territory People from Camden, South Carolina People of South Carolina in the American Civil War Politicians from Cheyenne, Wyoming Secretaries of state of Wyoming Wyoming Democrats