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Samuel Lewis Southard (June 9, 1787 – June 26, 1842) was a prominent American statesman of the early 19th century, serving as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the tenth governor of New Jersey.
President James Monroe appointed him secretary of the Navy (1823-1829), but Southard would also serve temporarily as secretary of the treasury (1825) and secretary of war (1828). Following his time in the cabinet, Southard became attorney general of New Jersey (1829-1833) and was later elected governor of the state (1832-1833).
Biography of Samuel L. Southard, one of New Jersey's most distinguished political leaders. Southard (1787-1842) participated in most of the major political controversies of his era, from the bitter Federalist-Republican competition during the War of 1812 through the rise and flowering of the second American party system.
16 de abr. de 2024 · Southard, Samuel L. (Samuel Lewis), 1787-1842. Abstract: This collection consists of papers of New Jersey politician, lawyer, and governor Samuel Lewis Southard, presenting a rather comprehensive view of Southard's personal and professional life, as well as the state of American politics and the law profession during the first half ...
- Steven Knowlton
- 2008
Attorney General. 1829-1833. Samuel L. Southard was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey on June 9, 1787. He was educated in a classical school run by Reverend Bob Finley. He attended the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University, where he graduated in 1804.
This study is a biography of a leading nineteenth century New Jersey politician and lawyer, Samuel Lewis Southard. Born in Somerset County, New Jersey, in 1787, the son of a farmer , Southard was exposed as a youth to politics and in particular to such Jeffersonian tenets as the need for an independent citizenry and a simple government--tenets ...
Southard was then Senator from New Jersey and early in the following year President of the Senate, and many Jerseymen looked to him anxiously as a dispenser of patronage;
