Samuel B. Romaine was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was the son of Colonel

Benjamin Romaine Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right")blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thirt ...

(1764–1844, several times Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society). Samuel Romaine was a member of the

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ...

in 1816–17 and from 1819 to 1822, and was

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in 1822. His son Benjamin Romaine, Jr. was a well-known Whig politician in the 1850s in New York's 15th Ward.

Sources

NYT on May 15, 1866

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