Samuel C. Pomeroy

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy

Junior Senator, Kansas
In office April 4, 1861 – March 3, 1873
Preceded by	(none)
Succeeded by	John J. Ingalls

Born	January 3, 1816 Southampton, Massachusetts, USA
Died	August 27, 1891 Whitinsville, Massachusetts, USA
Political party	Republican
Profession	Politician, Teacher

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (January 3, 1816 – August 27, 1891) was a Republican Senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century, serving in the United States Senate during the American Civil War.^[1] He also was the mayor of Atchison, Kansas, from 1858 to 1859,^{[citation needed]} the second president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and the first president to oversee any of the railroad's construction and operations. Pomeroy succeeded Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the railroad on January 13, 1864.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present. Retrieved on July 5, 2005.
^ Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.

Preceded by (none)	United States Senator (Class 3) from Kansas April 4, 1861 – March 3, 1873 Served alongside: James H. Lane, Edmund G. Ross, Alexander Caldwell	Succeeded by John J. Ingalls
Preceded by Cyrus K. Holliday	President of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1863 – 1868	Succeeded by William F. Nast