Samuel Lewis Southard (1787–1842)
In the 1820s Southard and Bushrod Washington exchanged a number of letters on patronage and other matters.
Samuel Lewis Southard, the son and brother of U.S. representatives, was born on 9 June 1787 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. A graduate of what is now Princeton University, he studied law and worked as a tutor in Fredericksburg, Virginia, before returning to New Jersey in 1811 to commence his legal practice. In 1815 he sat in the New Jersey state legislature, the start of a public career that included service as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1815–1820), U.S.
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Samuel Southard at Naval History and Heritage Command.
Samuel Lewis Southard at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Samuel L. Southard at Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Samuel Lewis Southard at Find a Grave.
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