Samuel H. Walley

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Samuel Hurd Walley

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|state=Massachusetts

|district =4th

|party= Whig

|term=March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855

|preceded=Lorenzo Sabine

|succeeded=Linus Bacon Comins

| title2 = Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

| term_start2 = 1844

| term_end2 = 1846

| predecessor2=Thomas Kinnicut

| successor2 = Ebenezer Bradbury

| title3 = Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Norfolk District

| term_start3 =1840

| term_end3 = 1846

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| successor3 =

| title4 = Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Norfolk District

| term_start4 =1836

| term_end4 = 1836

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| successor4 =

|birth_date={{birth date|1805|8|31|mf=y}}

|birth_place=

|death_date={{death date and age|1877|8|27|1805|8|31|mf=y}}

|death_place=Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, US

|spouse= Mehetable Sumner Bates, d. December 2, 1853.{{Citation |last=Field |first=David D.| title =Brief memoirs of the members of the class graduated at Yale College in September, 1802.| page = 65 | publisher = New England Historic Genealogical Society | location = Boston, MA | year = 1863}}
Ann Gray Hawes{{Citation | title = Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1871-1880 |volume= 7| page = 259 | publisher = New England Historic Genealogical Society | location = Boston, MA | year = 1907}}

|children=Henshaw Bates Walley, William Phillips Walley

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| alma_mater = Harvard, 1826

|occupation=

|profession=Attorney, Banker

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Samuel Hurd Walley (August 31, 1805 – August 27, 1877) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a member of the U.S. representative from Massachusetts.

Early life

Walley was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Hall Walley and Miriam (Phillips) Walley.{{Citation |last = Winsor | first = Justin | title = The Memorial History of Boston By Justin Winsor Volume II The Provincial Period | page = 552 | publisher = Ticknor and Company | location = Boston, MA | year = 1886}} Walley was the grandson of William Phillips, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1812 to 1823,{{Citation |last = Peabody| first = Andrew Preston | title = Harvard graduates whom I have known | page = 214 | publisher = The Riverside Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 1890}} and was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips of Watertown, the progenitor of the New England Phillips family in America.Bond, Henry and Jones, Horatio. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston: To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1860, pgs. 872-882

Family

Walley was married twice. Walley married his first wife Mehetable Sumner Bates on October 14, 1829, they had ten children, Mehetable Walley died December 2, 1853. Walley's second wife was Ann Gray Hawes.{{Citation | title = Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: 1871-1880 v. 7| page = 259 | publisher = New England Historic Genealogical Society | location = Boston, MA | year = 1907}}

Education

Walley attended the common schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Walley attended Yale College in 1822. Walley entered Harvard at the beginning of his sophomore year.{{Citation |last = Peabody| first = Andrew Preston | title = Harvard graduates whom I have known | page = 215 | publisher = The Riverside Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 1890}} Walley graduated from Harvard in 1826.

Business career

After he left college Walley studied law and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1831. Walley practiced in Boston and Roxbury.

Walley engaged in banking, he took a prominent part in the organization of the Suffolk Savings Bank. Walley was involved in the creation of the Revere National Bank, and from 1870 until his death he served as its first President.

Walley was involved in railroad development he was the Treasurer of the Vermont Central Railroad, treasurer of the Ogdensburg railroad and a promoter and first treasurer of the Wisconsin Central Railroad.