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Samuel Drake Lockwood was born on August 2, 1789 in Poundridge, New York, United States, the son of Joseph and Mary (Drake) Lockwood, and a descendant of Robert Lockwood who emigrated to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630 and later settled in Fairfield, Connecticut.
His schooling was very scanty.
From 1803 to 1811 Lockwood lived and read law with an uncle, Francis Drake, in Waterford, New York. Licensed in February 1811, he practised in Batavia, Sempronius, and Auburn until he started for Illinois in October 1818. Meanwhile he had evinced unusual maturity. He served as sergeant major (1808) and paymaster (1811) of a militia regiment, as a justice of the peace and master in chancery (1812 only) and became a trustee of his church (Presbyterian, 1812). He carried to the West commendatory letters that assured him immediate recognition.
Like other ambitious settlers in the new state, he was a candidate for political office. On February 6, 1821, he was elected by the legislature attorney-general. Next an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate, in the autumn of 1822, he was appointed, before that ambition was disappointed, secretary of state (December 28, 1822), thereupon resigning the attorney-generalship; only to resign the secretaryship when confirmed (January 28, 1823) receiver of the Edwardsville land-office. He remained for some years somewhat ambitious and influential in politics. In the passionate struggle in the years 1822-1824 over the calling of a constitutional convention (to make Illinois a slave state), he was active and powerful in behalf of the anti-slavery cause, which he aided, particularly, by editing one anticonvention newspaper and contributing to others.
The next legislature elected him an associate justice of the state supreme court (commissioned January 19, 1825), which office he filled with exceeding success and honor until December 4, 1848, when a new constitution, framed by a convention in which he was an active delegate, went into effect, making the judges elective by the people. He did not seek popular indorsement. Through his twenty-four years of service, Lockwood bore the heaviest burden in the labors of the court.
At various times and in various capacities he was active in fostering public education, and in promoting measures for the care of mental and physical defectives. He was a charter trustee of each of the state institutions established for the care of the insane, deaf mutes, and blind. From 1851 until his death he was a legislative trustee of the land-department of the Illinois Central Railroad. The last years of his life he spent in Batavia, Illinois, where he died.
His reputation in the state politics was notable. Lockwood distinguished himself during his service as the state's Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Supreme Court Justice. He made the great individual contribution to the notable revision of the Illinois statutes prepared in the years 1826-1829 by the judges and the legislature. He also participated in organizing (1815) New York's first Bible society.
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Originally a Whig, he acted after 1855 with the Republican party.
Lockwood was an excellent and a learned lawyer; a judge characterized by intelligence, urbanity, and social wisdom; a kindly man, of pure character, somewhat austere in his unbending rectitude, of marked modesty, yet equally of marked energy and determination.
On October 3, 1826, Lockwood married Mary Virginia Stith Nash of St. Louis.
