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
Bornc. 1783 (1783)
Exeter, New Hampshire
DiedDecember 17, 1820(1820-12-17) (aged 36–37)
Covington, Kentucky
Political partyDemocratic-Republican
SpouseElizabeth Denniston[1]
Alma materPhillips Exeter Academy, Yale College
ProfessionAttorney
Military service
AllegianceUnited States United States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of serviceMarch 12,[2] 1812[3]-July 14, 1814
RankLieutenant colonel
CommandsTwenty-first Infantry
Thirteenth Infantry
Battles/warsWar of 1812
Battle of York[2]

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

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.

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U.S. House of Representatives Preceded byJames Parker Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 19th congressional district March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 Succeeded byJoshua Gage Military offices Preceded by Major of the Twenty-first Infantry March 12, 1812 – March 12, 1813 [4] Succeeded byJohn Johnson[4] Preceded by Aide-de-camp toGeneral Henry Dearborn 1813 – 1813 Succeeded by Preceded byJohn Christie[5] Lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry March 12, 1813– July 14, 1814 Succeeded byR. 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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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