Samuel Atkins Eliot
U.S. Congressperson
1798 – 1862
Who was Samuel Atkins Eliot?
Samuel Atkins Eliot, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Eliot was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1798, and was the son of banker Samuel Eliot. He attended the Boston Latin School; graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1820. About 1826, he married Mary Lyman and had four daughters and two sons, including Charles William Eliot, a future President of Harvard University.
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1834-1837. From 1837 to 1839, he was mayor of Boston. During his administration a riot took place, caused by a collision between a volunteer fire company and an Irish funeral procession. The disturbance was suppressed by the promptness of Mayor Eliot, who was on the ground at the first alarm, and immediately took measures for calling out the militia. The result of this affair was the establishment of a paid fire department and a day police. He served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1843-1844. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C.
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- Born
- Mar 5, 1798
Boston - Parents
- Children
- Education
- Harvard University
- Harvard Divinity School
- Died
- Jan 29, 1862
Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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