Background
Pingree, Samuel Everett was born on August 2, 1832 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Stephen and Judith (True) Pingree.
Pingree, Samuel Everett was born on August 2, 1832 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Stephen and Judith (True) Pingree.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1857, Master of Arts, 1867 (Doctor of Laws, Norwich University).
Private Company F, 3d Vermont Volumes, 1861. First lieutenant, 1861. Captain, August 1861.
Major, September 27, 1862.
Lieutenant colonel, January 15, 1863. Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor, “for gallantry at Lee’s Mills, Virginia” (wounded).
Admitted to bar, 1859, and began practice at Hartford, Vermont State's attorney Windsor Company, 1868-1869. Lieutenant governor of Vermont, 1882-1884, governor, 1884-1886.
Chairman State Railway Commission, 1886-1894.
Home: Hartford, Vermont
Married Lydia M. Steele, of Stanstead, Quebec, September 15, 1869.