Samuel Works (c. 1781 – January 2, 1868) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was born December 4, 1781, at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, the son of Samuel Works and Susanna (Chandler) Works. In 1816, he removed to

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in W ...

and was co-owner of a

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there. In 1826, he was elected Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, and later became Fire Chief and City Superintendent. In February 1831, he was the Anti-Masonic candidate for

U.S. Senator from New York Below is a list of U.S. senators who have represented the State of New York in the United States Senate since 1789. The date of the start of the tenure is either the first day of the legislative term (Senators who were elected regularly before th ...

, but was defeated by Jacksonian William L. Marcy. The same year, Works removed to Lockport. He was a member of the New York State Senate (8th D.) from 1837 to 1844, sitting in the 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th, 66th and

67th New York State Legislature The 67th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to May 7, 1844, during the second year of William C. Bouck's governorship, in Albany, New York, Albany. Background ...

s. In November 1844, he ran on the Whig ticket for

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, but the Democratic ticket was elected. In 1850, he was appointed Superintendent of Repairs for Section 12 of the

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. He died at his residence in Lockport on January 2, 1868, and was buried at the Cold Springs Cemetery there.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 131ff and 147; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''Buffalo City Directory''
(1850; pg. 75)
''History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase and Morris' Reserve''
(Rochester NY, 1851; pg. 612) ays_"removed_from_Vermont".html" ;"title="Vermont.html" ;"title="ays "removed from Vermont">ays "removed from Vermont"">Vermont.html" ;"title="ays "removed from Vermont">ays "removed from Vermont"br>''Death of Hon. Samuel Works''
in NYT on January 6, 1868 [says "he was a native of New Hampshire"]

External links

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