Samuel Herrick (April 14, 1779 – June 4, 1852) was a
United States Representative
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from
Ohio
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.
Born in
Amenia, New York
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History
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, Herrick pursued an academic course. He studied law in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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, was
admitted to the bar
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in 1805 and commenced practice in
St. Clairsville, Ohio. He moved to
Zanesville, Ohio
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, in 1810. He was appointed prosecuting attorney of
Guernsey County in 1810 and also
United States district attorney
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. In 1814 he was appointed
prosecuting attorney
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of
Licking County and commissioned brigadier general of the Ohio Militia.
Herrick was elected as a
Democratic-Republican
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to the
Fifteenth Congress
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and reelected to the
Sixteenth Congress
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(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
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on the
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and
Calhoun
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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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1779 births
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