Samuel Atkins Eliot (politician)

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Samuel Atkins Eliot, (great-grandfather of Thomas Hopkinson Eliot) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Eliot was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 5, 1798. He attended the Boston Latin School; graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1820.

He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1834-1837; Mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1843-1844. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850 to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850; treasurer of Harvard University 1842-1853; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 29, 1862 and his body was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery.


Preceded by:
Robert C. Winthrop		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district
August 22, 1850 – March 3, 1851		 Succeeded by:
William Appleton
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