Samuel Calley (April 13, 1821 – January 1, 1883) was a Massachusetts house painter and politician who served as the eighteenth and twenty second

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, and in the

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from 1870 to 1871.

Death

Calley committed suicide by hanging himself from a step ladder.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Calley, Samuel 1821 births 1883 deaths American politicians who committed suicide Mayors of Salem, Massachusetts Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Suicides by hanging in Massachusetts House painters 19th-century American politicians 1880s suicides