Samuel Taggart
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Samuel Taggart was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire on March 24, 1754. He completed preparatory studies, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1774. Taggart studied theology and was licensed to preach. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry on February 19, 1777, and installed as pastor of a church in Colrain, Massachusetts. He then journeyed as a missionary through western New York.
Taggart was elected as a Federalist to the Eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1817). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1816, but continued his service as pastor of the Colrain Presbyterian Church until October 28, 1818, when he resigned. He died on his farm in Colrain on April 25, 1825. His interment was in Chandler Hill Cemetery.
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Taggart, Samuel. “Letters of Samuel Taggart: Representative in Congress from 1803 to 1814.” Edited by George H. Haynes. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 33 (April 1923): 113-226.
