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Samuel S. Yoder (August 16, 1841 – May 11, 1921) was an American
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veteran and politician who served two terms as a
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from
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from 1887 to 1891.


Biography

Born in
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, Yoder attended the common schools, Wooster (Ohio) University, and graduated from the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
.


Civil War

During the
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, he enlisted in the
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in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, beginning April 19, 1862. He rose to the rank of
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and served until the end of the war. After the war, he studied medicine and practiced in
Bluffton, Ohio Bluffton, originally known as Shannon, is a village (United States)#Ohio, village in Allen County, Ohio, Allen and Hancock County, Ohio, Hancock counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 4,125 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 ce ...
, where he served as mayor from 1868 to 1878.


Political career

Yoder moved to
Lima, Ohio Lima ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwest Ohio along Interstate 75 approximately north of Dayton, southwest of Toledo, and southeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana. As o ...
, in 1878, and began to study law. He was
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in 1880 and commenced practice in Lima. He served as member of the Democratic State executive committee from 1883 to 1885, and as judge of the probate court of Allen County from February 1882 to October 1886, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress. Yoder was elected as a
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to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890.


Later career and death

He served as
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from December 8, 1891, to August 7, 1893. He continued the practice of law and also engaged in the real estate business in
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, until his death. He is interred in
Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery is one of two national cemeteries run by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington, Virginia. There are about 30 funerals conducted on weekdays and 7 held on Sa ...
.


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References

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