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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Samuel Huntington Biography HUNTINGTON,
Samuel (1732-96). An American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of
Independence. He was born at Wyndham, Conn., on a farm; educated himself for the
law; practiced at Norwich, represented that constituency in the General Assembly
from 1765 to 1774, and became associate justice of the Superior Court (1774), of
which, 10 years later, he became Chief Justice. From 1776 to 1784 he was a
member of the Continental Congress, of which he was President, as the successor
of John Jay, in 1779-80. From 1786 to his death
Huntington was Governor of Connecticut.-His nephew and adopted son, SAMUEL
HUNTINGTON (1765-1817), graduated at Yale in 1785, was admitted to the bar in
1793, and in 1801 removed to Cleveland, Ohio. He passed the rest of his life in
that State and held the offices of judge of the Superior Court, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, State Senator, and Governor of the State from 1808 to 1810. The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XI
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
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