Career
Steele was born in Somerville, New Jersey on December 17, 1820, where he attended the public schools and Somerville Academy. He engaged in banking. Steele was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865.
After leaving Congress, he engaged in the brokerage business.
He died in Somerville on April 22, 1892, and was interred in Somerville Cemetery in Somerville.
