Samuel Hanford

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Samuel Hanford

|office=Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk

|term_start=October 1705

|term_end=May 1706[https://books.google.com/books?id=ul0EAAAAYAAJ&q=Belden Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut]

|predecessor=John Belding,
Joseph Platt

|alongside=Thomas Betts

|successor=Samuel Keeler,
John Copp

|term_start2=May 1707

|term_end2=October 1707

|predecessor2=Joseph Platt

|alongside2=Thomas Betts

|successor2=Joseph Platt

|term_start3=May 1708

|term_end3=October 1708

|predecessor3=Joseph Platt

|alongside3=

|successor3=Joseph Platt,
John Betts

|term_start4=May 1711

|term_end4=October 1711

|predecessor4=John Betts

|alongside4=

|successor4=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock

|term_start5=May 1714

|term_end5=October 1714

|predecessor5=Joseph Platt,
Matthew Seymour

|alongside5=Samuel Kellogg

|successor5=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock

|term_start6=October 1717

|term_end6=May 1718

|predecessor6=

|alongside6=John Read

|successor6=John Bartlett ,
Samuel Marvin

|term_start7=October 1719

|term_end7=October 1720

|predecessor7=John Copp,
Joseph Platt

|alongside7=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock

|successor7=James Brown,
Joseph Platt

|term_start8=October 1722

|term_end8=May 1723

|predecessor8=John Benedict

|alongside8=Joseph Platt

|successor8=

|term_start9=October 1733

|term_end9=May 1734

|predecessor9=Joseph Platt,
James Lockwood

|alongside9=Joseph Platt

|successor9=Joseph Birchard,
John Marvin

|term_start10=May 1735

|term_end10=May 1738

|predecessor10=Joseph Platt,
Daniel Hoyt

|alongside10=James Lockwood,
John Betts, Jr.,
Samuel Fitch,
Joseph Platt,
Thomas Benedict

|successor10=James Lockwood,
John Marvin

|office11=Town Clerk of the Town of Norwalk

|term_start11=1707

|term_end11=1708

|predecessor11=James Olmsted

|successor11=John Copp

|birth_date={{birth date|1674|04|22}}"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9C7Q-YMH : accessed 2014-05-12), entry for Samuel Hanford, submitted by wrsbentley3789915

|birth_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|death_date={{death date and age|1751|02|02|1674|04|22}}

|death_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|restingplace=East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut

|residence=S.W corner of East Avenue and Fort Point Street,
Norwalk, Connecticut Colony{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927004559/http://www.ramapoughlenapenation.org/wp-docs/Norwalk.pdf Selleck, Charles Melbourne, Norwalk, p. 145]}}

|alma_mater=

|spouse=Isabell Haynes

|children=Samuel Hanford, Jr., William Hanford, Thaddeus Hanford, Haynes Hanford, Hezekiah Hanford, Hanford Isabell Hall

|rank=Captain[https://books.google.com/books?id=vwYCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Samuel%20Hanford&pg=PA112 The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut] (October 1719)

|unit=Norwalk Trainband

}}

Samuel Hanford (April 22, 1674 – February 2, 1751) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1705, May 1707, May 1708, May 1711, May 1714, October 1717, October 1719, May 1720, October 1722, October 1733, May and October 1735, May and October 1736, and May and October 1737. He also served as Norwalk town clerk from 1707 to 1708.

He served as a justice of the peace for Norwalk in 1711, 1723, 1724, and from 1735 until his death in 1751. He served as a selectman for seven years.

He was the son of Reverend Thomas Hanford and Mary Miles.