Background
Hardy, Samuel was born in 1758 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States. Son of Richard Hardy.
Hardy, Samuel was born in 1758 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States. Son of Richard Hardy.
Born in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Samuel was educated at Virginia"s College of William and Mary, began the practice of law, and served in the Virginia House of Delegates.
On May 6, 1784, he voted against the resolution in the Congress restricting the salary of a foreign minister of the United States to $8,000, and on May 7 opposed the motion that the salary of a United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs should not exceed $3,000 per annum. He served for a time Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Hardy died in NYC on October 17, 1785 while Congress was in session, and was buried in St Paul's Church Cemetery (Now Trinity Church) on Octoberf 18, 1785 (See References). His funeral was attended by the entire Congress.
Hardy County, West Virginia is named in his honor.
He was a member of the Continental Congress from Virginia from 1783 until 1785. In May 1784, he nominated Thomas Jefferson as minister plenipotentiary to Europe to assist John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in negotiating treaties of commerce. And in January 1785, was a member of a committee that reported on letters that had been received from United States ministers in Europe relative to a foreign loan.
