Samuel Swan (1771-1844)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-02553
Given Name
Samuel
Family Name
Swan
Birth Date
1771
Death Date
1844
Sex
Male
Occupation
Government
Medical and Funerary
Policing and Corrections
Biographical Description
Samuel Swan was a doctor and politician from Somerset County, New Jersey. He served as the County Clerk from 1809 to 1820. In this role, he was responsible for maintaining records related to enslaved people's births and manumissions. He then went on to serve as a U.S. Congressman from New Jersey.

The following profile from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress enumerates his various public offices at the local and national level:
"SWAN, Samuel, a Representative from New Jersey; born near Scotch Plains, Somerset County, N.J., in 1771; studied medicine, and practiced in Boundbrook, N.J., 1800-1806 and in Somerville, N.J., 1806-1809; commissioned as sheriff of Somerset County October 13, 1804, for two years; county clerk 1809-1820; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1831); did not seek renomination in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress; affiliated with the Whig Party; resumed the practice of medicine; died at Boundbrook, N.J., August 24, 1844; interment in the De Groot vault in the Presbyterian Cemetery."
Keywords
white person
government official
U.S. Congress
Places
Bound Brook
Somerset County
Somerville (formerly Raritan)
References

“SWAN, Samuel.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S001088.
Record Contributor
Jesse Bayker
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