Background
Shaw, Samuel was born in December 1768 in Dighton, Massachusetts, United States.
United States representative politician
Shaw, Samuel was born in December 1768 in Dighton, Massachusetts, United States.
He moved to Castleton in 1789 and studied medicine for two years, and then commenced the practice of medicine in Castleton. He chose to serve as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, serving from 1800 until 1807, and was Presidential Elector from Vermont in 1804.
He served as a United States Representative from Vermont. He moved to Putney, Vermont at the age of ten, and received limited schooling as a youth. Shaw was elected to both the Vermont House of Representatives and the Vermont Senate in 1800.
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. He served in the United States Army during the War of 1812 as a hospital surgeon from April 6, 1813, to June 15, 1815, when he was honorably discharged.
He was reinstated on September 13, 1815. Appointed post surgeon April 18, 1818, and resigned on December 31, 1818.
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 died on October 23, 1827 in Clarendon Springs. He is interred at Castleton Congregational Cemetery in Castleton, Vermont.
Member Vt; member United States House