Background
Labudde was born on July 3, 1956, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States; the son of John Arthur and Bessie (Freeman) Laboratory.
Labudde was born on July 3, 1956, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States; the son of John Arthur and Bessie (Freeman) Laboratory.
Labudde received a Bachelor of Arts in biology from the IIndiana University in 1986.
Labudde began his career as a fisheries biologist at National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle in 1987. The same year he became a staff biologist at Earth Island Institute and at Marine Mammal Fund in San Francisco, where he worked until 1994. In 1989, Samuel took a position of a field biologist at Earthtrust in Honolulu and held it for a year.
In 1990, Samuel worked as a field investigator at Friends of Animals, in Norwalk, Connecticut. The same year Labudde became a consultant at Humane Society of the United States in Washington and held it for three years. Since 1991, he has been an executive director of Endangered Species Project.
Labudde is a member of Humane Society of the United States.