Samuel Myron Brainerd

U.S. Congressperson

1842 – 1898

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Who was Samuel Myron Brainerd?

Samuel Myron Brainerd was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Samuel M. Brainerd was born in Albion, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, Edinboro Normal School, and University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in North East, Pennsylvania. He served as district attorney of Erie County, Pennsylvania, from 1872 to 1875. He moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, 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 Erie Cemetery.

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Born
Nov 13, 1842
Coneautville, Pennsylvania
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Presbyterianism
Ethnicity
  • White people
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Conneaut Township Academy
  • University of Michigan
  • Edinboro State Normal School
  • University of Michigan Law School
Employment
  • United States Congress
    (1883/12 - 1885)
Lived in
  • Erie
Died
Nov 21, 1898
Demographics of Erie, Pennsylvania
Resting place
Erie Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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