Samuel S. Conner
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Samuel Shepard Conner (ca. 1783 - December 17, 1820) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Conner attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1794. He was graduated from Yale College in 1806. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Waterville, Maine (at that time a district of Massachusetts), in 1810. He served in the War of 1812 as major of the Twenty-first Infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry March 12, 1813. He resigned July 14, 1814. He resumed the practice of law in Waterville, Maine.
Conner was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817). He was appointed surveyor general of the Ohio land district in 1819. He died in Covington, Kentucky, December 17, 1820.
