Samuel Cook Silliman (also Samuel Cook Syllyman) (November 12, 1742 – February 14, 1795) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk. He served several non-consecutive terms starting in 1779 and ending in 1794. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in all of the following sessions: *May 1779Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut, from 1776 to 1881
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Constitutional delegate

On November 12, 1787, the inhabitants of the town of Norwalk had a town meeting with Colonel Thomas Fitch as moderator. Silliman and

Hezekiah Rogers Hezekiah Rogers (1753 – September 4, 1811) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut, Norwalk in the sessions of May 1786, and October 1787. He was a delegate to the convention in Connecticut to ratify ...

were chosen as delegates to meet in a convention at Hartford, following January to ratify the

United States Constitution The Constitution of the United States is the Supremacy Clause, supreme law of the United States, United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789. Originally comprising seven ar ...

. Connecticut ratified the Constitution on January 8, 1788, making it the fifth state to do so.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Silliman, Samuel Cook 1742 births 1795 deaths Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Politicians from Norwalk, Connecticut Connecticut militiamen in the American Revolution Military personnel from Connecticut 18th-century American politicians