Samuel Galloway

Samuel Galloway
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 12th district
In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857
Preceded by	Edson B. Olds
Succeeded by	Samuel S. Cox
8th Ohio Secretary of State
In office 1844–1850
Governor	Mordecai Bartley William Bebb Seabury Ford
Preceded by	John Sloane
Succeeded by	Henry W. King
Personal details
Born	(1811-03-20)March 20, 1811 Green Lawn Cemetery
Political party	Republican Whig
Alma mater	Miami University Princeton Theological Seminary

Samuel Galloway (March 20, 1811 – April 5, 1872) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Galloway attended local public schools. He moved to Ohio and settled in Highland County in 1830. He graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1833. Galloway then attended Princeton Theological Seminary in 1835 and 1836. He taught school in Hamilton, Ohio, 1836 and 1837, at Miami University in 1837 and 1838, and Hanover College, Indiana, in 1839 and 1840.

After studying law, he was

Galloway was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress and for election in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of law.

During the

Sources

• United States Congress. "Samuel Galloway (id: G000027)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio. Vol. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.

External links

• Samuel Galloway at Find a Grave

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress