Samuel Myron Brainerd (November 13, 1842 – November 21, 1898) was a

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member of the

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from

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. Samuel M. Brainerd was born in

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. He attended the public schools, Edinboro Normal School, and

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in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in

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. He served as district attorney of Erie County, Pennsylvania, from 1872 to 1875. He moved to

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, in 1874 and continued the practice of law. He was chairman of the Republican county committee in 1880. Brainerd was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884. He resumed the practice of law in Erie and died there in 1898. Interment in

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