Sam DeWitt

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Samuel Aaron DeWitt was a businessman and a New York state Legislator representing Bronx's 7th district from 1919 until 1928. In 1928 he made an unsuccessful campaign for United States Congress.

Sam Dewitt is most famous for being thrown out of the New York State Assembly along with four fellow Legislators for being members of the Socialist Party. The five members brought this case to the Supreme Court. The New York Assembly was forced to seat three of the five members, including DeWitt. The other members included August Claessens, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon, and most famously, Louis Waldman.

DeWitt was good friends with Upton Sinclair. In Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle, one of the main characters, Nicolas Schliemann, is based on Sam DeWitt.

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• New York; By New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Standing Committee on the Judiciary, Louis M. Martin, Louis Waldman, Samuel Aaron De Witt, August Claessens, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon (1920). Proceedings of the Judiciary Committee of the Assembly: In The Matter Of The Investigation By The Assembly Of The State Of New York As To The Qualifications Of Louis Waldman August Claessens Samuel A DeWitt Samuel Orr And Charles Solomon To Retain Their Seats In Said Body Volume III. Original from the University of California: J.B. Lyon Co., printers.