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  Snider, Samuel Prather
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AffiliationRepublican  
  1900-01-10  
 
NameSamuel Prather Snider
Address
Minneapolis, Minnesota , United States
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Born October 09, 1845
DiedSeptember 24, 1928 (82 years)
ContributorThe Oncoming Storm
Last ModifedJuan Croniqueur
Sep 11, 2023 06:50pm
Tags Army -
InfoHouse 1885-88 (District 30)

EDUCATION
Oberlin College, Ohio; Attended College

OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Military Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 65th Regiment (United States Civil War, Private) ??/??/186? to ??/??/18??

U.S. Representative 4th Congressional District, Minnesota Elected 03/04/1889 to 03/03/1891


SNIDER, Samuel Prather, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio, October 9, 1845; attended the public schools, the local high school at Mount Gilead, Ohio, and Oberlin College, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted as a private soldier in the Sixty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; after the war engaged in commercial pursuits in New York; moved to Minnesota in 1876 and settled in Minneapolis; organized and built the Midland Railway in southern Minnesota; engaged in agricultural pursuits and the mining of iron ore; member of the State house of representatives 1884-1888; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892; retired and resided in Minneapolis, Minn., until his death September 24, 1928; interment in Lakewood Cemetery.

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  11/04/1890 MN - District 04 Lost 43.53% (-8.26%)
  11/06/1888 MN District 04 Won 53.81% (+12.15%)
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