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Samuel Hoar was born on May 18, 1778 in Lincoln, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Susanna (Pierce) and Samuel Hoar, a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, later a magistrate and member of the Massachusetts House and Senate. He was a descendant of John, one of the brothers of Leonard Hoar.
Hoar was prepared for college by the Reverend Charles Stearns of Lincoln and was graduated from Harvard College with a degreeof Bachelor of Arts in 1802. He also studied law in the office of Artemas Ward.
In 1805 Hoar began practice in Concord. He rose rapidly in his profession and for forty years was one of the eminent lawyers in the state, ranking in court practice with Webster and Choate. He was a conservative in the Massachusetts constitutional convention of 1820, served several terms in the state Senate, and at seventy-two was elected to the House of Representatives, where he was successful in defeating an attempt to abolish the corporation of Harvard College and to substitute a board to be chosen by the legislature. Harvard's president declared: "Other men have served the College; Samuel Hoar saved it. "
In 1844 the governor, as authorized by the legislature, employed him to test the constitutionality of certain South Carolina laws under which many Massachusetts' colored citizens, seamen on vessels touching at South Carolina ports, were seized on arrival, put in jail, and kept imprisoned till their vessel sailed or, if their jail fees were not then paid, sold as slaves. On the day of Hoar's arrival in Charleston the legislature, only one member dissenting, by resolution requested the Governor to expel "the Northern emissary" from the state. Warned by the mayor and the sheriff that his life was in danger and urged to depart, he replied that he was too old to run and that he could not return to Massachusetts without an effort to perform the duty assigned him.
Under threat of violence from the mob that surrounded his hotel, at the earnest request of a committee of seventy leading citizens, he consented to walk--instead of being dragged--to the carriage waiting to convey him to the boat. The indignity to which this venerable citizen of Massachusetts had been subjected produced hot indignation throughout the North. After he had retired from active practice of the law, for nearly twenty years he devoted his energies to the service of the church, of temperance, and of various organizations for the promotion of peace, colonization, and education. He was an overseer of Harvard College but not less interested and conscientious in his duties as a member of the Concord school committee.
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Hoar was a Unitarian, strict in observance of the Sabbath, and for many years teacher and superintendent in the local Sunday school.
In politics Hoar was first a Federalist, then a Whig. He was a representative in Congress, 1835-1837, and vigorously upheld the power of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, and opposed the recognition of the independence of Texas. He was a delegate to the convention which nominated Harrison for president.
In 1848, believing that the nomination of Taylor marked the Whig party's abandonment of its opposition to the spread of slavery, he at once exerted himself to bring about united political action by men of all parties opposed to the nominations of Cass or Taylor.
He was the first to sign the call written by his son, E. Rockwood Hoar , for the convention, over which he presided, at Worcester on June 28, 1848, and in the ensuing campaign his name headed the electoral ticket of the Free Soil party in Massachusetts.
In 1854 he led in the movement which, at the Worcester convention in September, first placed "Republican" candidates in nomination for state offices. The following year he was chairman of the committee which called the convention that formally organized the Republican party in Massachusetts.
Hoar was of imposing appearance, of great courtesy especially to women and little children, and tender to all who were the victims of injustice.
On October 13, 1812 Hoar married Sarah, the daughter of Roger Sherman of Connecticut. Six children were born to them. Four of his descendants followed him in service in the national House of Representatives: his sons, E. Rockwood and George F. Hoar; and two grandsons, Sherman and Rockwood Hoar.
