Samuel Galloway (March 20, 1811 – April 5, 1872) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Ohio
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.
Born in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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, Galloway attended local public schools. He moved to Ohio and settled in
Highland County in 1830. He graduated from
Miami University
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in
Oxford, Ohio
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, in 1833. Galloway then attended
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1835 and 1836. He taught school in
Hamilton, Ohio
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, 1836 and 1837, at
Miami University
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in 1837 and 1838, and
Hanover College, Indiana, in 1839 and 1840.
After studying law, he was
admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in
Chillicothe, Ohio
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. He was Ohio's
Secretary of State in 1844, and moved to Columbus that same year. He served as delegate to the
Whig National Convention in 1848.
Galloway was elected as an
Opposition Party
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candidate to the
Thirty-fourth Congress
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(March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the
Thirty-fifth Congress and for election in 1858 to the
Thirty-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of law.
During the
Civil War
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, he was appointed as the
judge advocate of
Camp Chase in
Columbus, Ohio
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, by President
Abraham Lincoln
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. Following the war, Galloway was appointed by President
Andrew Johnson
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to investigate conditions in the South during the period of
Reconstruction
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. He was nominated at the Republican state convention in 1867 for
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, but declined.
Presidential elector
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for
Grant/
Colfax in 1868.
He was for thirteen years a ruling elder of the
Presbyterian
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Church.
Galloway died in
Columbus, Ohio
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, April 5, 1872, and was interred in
Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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1811 births
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1868 United States presidential electors
Secretaries of State of Ohio
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Burials at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
19th-century American politicians