Samuel Tenney

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Samuel Tenney (November 27, 1748 - February 6, 1816) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. Born in Byfield, Massachusetts, he attended Dummer Academy there and graduated from Harvard College in 1772. He taught school in Andover, Massachusetts and studied medicine, beginning practice in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War, and returned to Exeter at the close of the war and continued the practice of his profession. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1788 and a judge of probate for Rockingham County from 1793 to 1800.

Tenney was elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Gordon; he was reelected to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses and served from December 8, 1800, to March 3, 1807. While in the House, he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Eighth and Ninth Congresses). He pursued literary, historical, and scientific studies and died in Exeter in 1816; interment was in the Old Cemetery.

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