Samuel Thomas Worcester (August 30, 1804 – December 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a

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from

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from 1861 to 1863.

Biography

Born in

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, to the large Worcester family. His siblings included

Henry Aiken Worcester Henry Aiken Worcester (Sept. 25, 1802 – May 21, 1841) was a Yale University alumnus, a vegetarian, and a Swedenborgian minister who worked in Maine and Massachusetts. His "''Sermons on the Lord's Prayer''" was published posthumously in 1850 . ...

. Worcester attended Phillips Academy and graduated from

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in 1830. He studied law. He was

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in 1835 and began practice in

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. He served as member of the Ohio State Senate in 1849 and 1850, and served as judge of the

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in 1859 and 1860.

Congress

Worcester was elected as a

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to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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and served from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law and engaged in literary pursuits. He died in Nashua, New Hampshire, on December 6, 1882. He was interred in the South Cemetery,

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