Samuel E. Hogg

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Samuel E. Hogg (April 18, 1783 - May 28, 1842) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives that represented Tennessee from 1817 to 1819. U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee

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Born in Halifax, North Carolina, Hogg attended public schools in Caswell County and taught for a while, before studying medicine in Gallatin, Tennessee around 1804. He subsequently moved to Lebanon County, Tennessee and joined the army as a surgeon:

First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Infantry from November 21, 1812 to April 22, 1813
on the staff of Major General Andrew Jackson in the expedition against the Creek Indians from February 22 to May 25, 1814
on the staff of Major General William Carroll from November 13, 1814 to May 13, 1815.

After three years of working as a surgeon in the army he was given a leave of absence after an encounter with death. He then came back to Tennessee where he worked as a waiter in a local diner for a few years before being elected.

Hogg was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819.

He went back into practicing medicine in Lebanon, Tennessee until 1828, in Nashville from 1828 to 1836, in Natchez from 1836 to 1838, and again in Nashville from 1838 to 1840.

Hogg was president of the State Medical Society of Tennessee in 1840. He died in Rutherford County, Tennessee in 1842 at the age of 59, and was interred at the Nashville City Cemetery.