Samuel R. Peters, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel R. Peters

American politician

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1842

Place of Birth: Circleville, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 21-Apr-1910

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Samuel R. Peters

  • Samuel Ritter Peters (August 16, 1842 – April 21, 1910) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Kansas. Born in Walnut Township, near Circleville, Ohio, Peters attended the common schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware.
  • Enlisted in the Union Army as a private in Company E, Seventy-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in October 1861 and was mustered out in June 1865, having held successively the ranks of sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain.
  • He was graduated in law from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1867.
  • He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Memphis, Missouri.
  • He was editor of the Memphis Reveille 1868-1873.
  • He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1872.
  • He served as mayor of Memphis in 1873.
  • He moved to Marion, Kansas, in 1873 and resumed the practice of law. Peters was elected a member of the State senate in 1874 and served until his resignation in March 1875.
  • He was appointed and subsequently elected judge of the ninth judicial district and served from 1875 until 1883, when he resigned.
  • He moved to Newton, Kansas, in 1876. Peters was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1891).
  • He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890.
  • He resumed the practice of law in Newton.
  • He served as member of the board of managers of the State reformatory 1895-1899.
  • Postmaster of Newton 1898-1910.
  • He was editor of the Newton Daily Kansas-Republican in 1899.
  • He died in Newton, Kansas on April 21, 1910.
  • He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.

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