Background
Sampson, Henry Ellis was born on March 6, 1879 in Audubon County, Iowa, United States. Son of Cyrus Henry and Martha (Ellis) Sampson.
Sampson, Henry Ellis was born on March 6, 1879 in Audubon County, Iowa, United States. Son of Cyrus Henry and Martha (Ellis) Sampson.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1903. Student State University of Iowa, 1902-1903. B.Ph.; University of Chicago, 1904, Juris Doctor, 1905.
Admitted to Iowa bar, 1905, Supreme Court of the United States Court bar, 1916. Practiced in Des Moines as senior member firm Sampson & Dillon, specializing in corporation, insurance, constitutional law, malpractice and taxation litigation, since 1905. Assistant attorney general of Iowa, 1910-1917.
Special counsel Iowa Insurance Department, 1911-1916, Iowa State Highway Committee and Iowa Industrial Commissioner, 1914-1916, Iowa State Corporation Department, 1912-1917. Special counsel Public Examiners Division and in charge of cases for removal from office of public officials. Counsel for State defending patent suits based on Luten’s patents.
Professor of malpractice and medical jurisprudence in Still Osteopathic College. General counsel Iowa Manufacturers Association since 1917.
Member Des Moines Plan of City Government Committee, 1907. Member State Advisory Council of Iowa Unemployment Compensation Commission Trustee and. Member Iowa State Bar Association, Polk County Bar Association, Delta Chi.
Mason (K.T., 32°, Shriner). Clubs: University, Cornell (vice president), University of Chicago (Des Moines).
Married Mary Luella Stubbs, October 18, 1905.