Samuel S. Conner

Samuel Shepard Conner (ca. 1783 – December 17, 1820) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Samuel Shepard Conner
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 19th district
In office
March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817
Preceded byJames Parker
Succeeded byJoshua Gage
Personal details
Born1783
Exeter, New Hampshire
DiedDecember 17, 1820
Covington, Kentucky
Political partyDemocratic-Republican
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Denniston[1]
Alma materPhillips Exeter Academy, Yale College
ProfessionAttorney
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of serviceMarch 12,[2] 1812[3]-July 14, 1814
RankMajor
Lieutenant Colonel
CommandsTwenty-first Infantry
Thirteenth Infantry
Battles/warsWar of 1812
Battle of York[2]

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Conner attended Phillips Exeter Academy in 1794. He was graduated from Yale College in 1806. He studied law.

Conner married Elizabeth Denniston of Albany, New York.[3] He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Waterville, Maine (at that time a district of Massachusetts), in 1810. Conner served in the War of 1812. Conner was first a Major of the Twenty-first Infantry. In the beginning of 1813 Conner served as Aide-de-camp to General Henry Dearborn.[3] He was one of the American officers who accepted the British surrender at the Battle of York.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry March 12, 1813. He resigned July 14, 1814. He resumed the practice of law in Waterville, Maine.

Conner was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817). He was appointed surveyor general of the Ohio land district in 1819. He died in Covington, Kentucky, December 17, 1820.

Sources
  • United States Congress. "Samuel S. Conner (id: C000692)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
James Parker		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 19th congressional district
March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817		 Succeeded by
Joshua Gage
Military offices
Preceded by
 Major
of the Twenty-first Infantry
March 12, 1812 – March 12, 1813 [4]		 Succeeded by
John Johnson[4]
Preceded by
 Aide-de-camp to
General Henry Dearborn
1813 – 1813		 Succeeded by
Preceded by
John Christie[5]		 Lieutenant Colonel
of the Thirteenth Infantry
March 12, 1813– July 14, 1814		 Succeeded by
R. N. Malcolm[6]

Notes
  1. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1912), Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Vol VI, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, p. 24.
  2. Coues, Elliott (1895), The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike: to headwaters of the Mississippi River, Volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Francis. P. Harper, p. ciii.
  3. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1912), Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale college with annals of the College History Vol VI, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, p. 23.
  4. Heitman, Francis Bernard (1890), Historical register of the United States Army: from its organization, Washington, D.C: The National Tribune, p. 60.
  5. Powell, William Henry (1900), List of officers of the army of the United States from 1779 to 1900, New York, N.Y.: L. R. Hamersly & Co., p. 53.
  6. Heitman, Francis Bernard (1890), Historical register of the United States Army: from its organization, Washington, D.C: The National Tribune, p. 53.

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