Samuel Snider

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Samuel Prather Snider (October 9, 1845 – September 24, 1928) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio, October 9, 1845; attended the public schools, the local high school at Mount Gilead, Ohio, and Oberlin College, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted as a private soldier in the Sixty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; after the war engaged in commercial pursuits in New York; moved to Minnesota in 1876 and settled in Minneapolis; organized and built the Midland Railway in southern Minnesota; engaged in agricultural pursuits and the mining of iron ore; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives 1884 – 1888; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892; retired and resided in Minneapolis, MN, until his death September 24, 1928; interment in Lakewood Cemetery.

Preceded by:
Edmund Rice		 U.S. Representative from the 4th Congressional District of Minnesota
1889 – 1891		 Succeeded by:
James Castle
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