
Samuel Mayall (June 21, 1816 – September 17, 1892) was a
United States representative from
Maine. He was born in
North Gray, Massachusetts (now in
Maine). He both attended the public schools and was tutored privately at home. Later, he moved to
Gray, Maine.
Mayall was a member of the
Maine House of Representatives
The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via p ...
in 1845, 1847, and 1848. He served in the
Maine Senate in 1847 and 1848 but declined the Democratic nomination as a candidate for Representative to the
Thirty-second Congress
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. He was elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-third Congress
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(March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1854. After leaving Congress, he was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention
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in 1856.
Mayall moved to
St. Paul, Minnesota
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in 1857. He became a large landowner before he was commissioned as a captain at the beginning of the
American Civil War. After the war, he devoted his time to looking after his large business interests. He died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1892 and was buried in Oakland Cemetery.
References
1816 births
1892 deaths
People from Gray, Maine
Democratic Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Democratic Party Maine state senators
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine
19th-century American legislators
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