Solomon Samson

{{short description|Newfoundland educator and politician (1885–1957)}}

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| constituency_AM1 = Twillingate

| alongside1 = Walter Jennings and George Jones

| assembly1 = Newfoundland House of

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| term_start1 = {{start date|1919|11|03}}

| term_end1 = {{end date|1923|05|03}}

| predecessor1 = William Coaker
James A. Clift

| successor1 = Kenneth M. Brown
Arthur Barnes

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|08|10}}

| birth_place = Flat Islands, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland Colony

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|02|14|1885|08|10}}

| death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

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| occupation = Teacher

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| party = Fishermen's Protective Union

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Solomon Samson (August 10, 1885 – February 14, 1957) was an educator, civil servant and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Twillingate in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1919 to 1923.

He was born in Flat Islands, Bonavista Bay and worked as a teacher in Catalina and Greenspond. In 1923, he was appointed to a position in the Customs department and moved to St. John's. He began writing poetry later in life and published a small volume of poems in 1952.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/3650 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |page=77 |title=Samson, Solomon}}

Works

  • Glimpse of Newfoundland (as it was and as it is) in Poetry and Pictures{{cite web |url=https://www.mun.ca/linguistics/research/language/NL_English_bibliography.pdf |title=A Newfoundland and Labrador English Bibliography |date=September 2010 |last=Samson |first=Solomon |publisher=Memorial University |page=29 |editor=Saunders, Robert}}

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