Samuel Shaw (politician)

Shaw was born in Dighton in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to John Shaw and Molly Hudson.{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mabiog/Bristol_County/shawsamuel.htm|title= Samuel Shaw|publisher= Ancestry.com |accessdate= November 14, 2012}} He moved to Putney, Vermont, at the age of ten, and received limited schooling as a youth. He moved to Castleton in the Vermont Republic in 1789 and studied medicine for two years, and then commenced the practice of medicine in Castleton.{{cite web|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000310 |title=SHAW, Samuel, (1768 - 1827)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= November 14, 2012}}

Shaw was elected to both the Vermont House of Representatives in 1800.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia, Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 1912|year=1912|publisher=Ullery Publishing Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_tt2_3hTQxFMC/page/n68 66]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_tt2_3hTQxFMC|quote=samuel shaw.}} He served from 1800 until 1807,{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shaw.html|title= Shaw, Samuel (1768–1827)|publisher= The Political Graveyard |accessdate= November 14, 2012}} and was Presidential Elector from Vermont in 1804.{{cite book|title=Vermont Legislative Directory|year=1886|publisher=Rand, Avery|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4QxQAAAAYAAJ/page/n79 72]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4QxQAAAAYAAJ|quote=samuel shaw presidential elector vermont.}} He was elected as a Democratic-Republican candidate to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Witherell. He was reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from September 6, 1808, to March 3, 1813.{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/samuel_shaw/409808|title= Rep. Samuel Shaw|publisher= govtrack.us |accessdate= November 14, 2012}}

He served in the United States Army during the War of 1812 as a hospital surgeon from April 6, 1813, to June 15, 1815,{{cite book|title=American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States ..., Part 5, Volume 1|year=1832|publisher=Gales and Seaton|pages=391|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJUbAQAAMAAJ&q=samuel+shaw+United+States+Army+as+hospital+surgeon+from+April+6%2C+1813&pg=PA391}} when he was honorably discharged. He was reinstated on September 13, 1815; appointed post surgeon April 18, 1818, and resigned on December 31, 1818.{{cite book|title=Congressional serial set|year=1913|publisher=United States. Government Printing Office|pages=990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9K8qAAAAYAAJ&q=samuel+shaw+United+States+Army+as+hospital+surgeon+from+April+6%2C+1813&pg=PA990}}

Shaw is not to be confused with the early whistleblower Samuel Shaw, who had been arrested by Esek Hopkins during the Revolutionary War. Representative Shaw would have been nine at the time of the incident.

Shaw married Sally Campbell in 1788.{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mabiog/Bristol_County/shawsamuel.htm|title= Samuel Shaw|publisher= Ancestry.com |accessdate= November 14, 2012}} Shaw's son Henry Shaw also served in the United States Congress as United States Representative from Massachusetts, serving from 1817 until 1821.{{cite web|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000307 |title=SHAW, Henry, (1788 - 1857)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= November 14, 2012}}

Shaw died on October 23, 1827, in Clarendon Springs. He is interred at Castleton Congregational Cemetery in Castleton, Vermont.

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• {{Find a Grave|7180143}}
• [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000310 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: SHAW, Samuel, (1768 - 1827)]
• [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shaw.html The Political Graveyard: Shaw, Samuel (1768–1827)]
• [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/samuel_shaw/409808 govtrack.us: Rep. Samuel Shaw]

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