Samuel Shaw

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Samuel Shaw (December, 1768 - October 23, 1827) was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Dighton, Massachusetts. He received a limited schooling as a youth. He moved to Putney, Vermont and studied medicine and commenced practice in Castleton in 1789.

Shaw was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives 1800-1807. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Witherell and was reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from September 6, 1808, to March 3, 1813. He served in the United States Army during the War of 1812 as hospital surgeon from April 6, 1813, to June 15, 1815, when he was honorably discharged. He was reinstated on September 13, 1815; appointed post surgeon April 18, 1818, and resigned on December 31, 1818. He died in Clarendon Springs in 1827 and was buried in Castleton Cemetery.

[edit] References

• Samuel Shaw at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[edit] External links

• Samuel Shaw at Find A Grave