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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoar , Samuel 1788 -1856 (search)
Hoar, Samuel 1788-1856
Lawyer; born in Lincoln, Mass., May 18, 1788; graduated at Harvard College in 1802; admitted to the of bar in 1805, and began practice in Concord.
He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1820; a member of the State Senate in 1825 and 1833; and a Whig representative in Congress in 1835-37.
He was sent by the Massachusetts legislature to South Carolina in 1844 to test the constitutionality of the acts of that State, authorizing the imprisonment of free colored people who should enter it, but his appearance in Charleston caused much excitement, and he was forced to leave the city, Dec. 5, 1844.
He died in Concord, Mass., Nov. 2, 1856.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)