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Shellabarger, Samuel,1817-1896
Messrs. Vallandigham, Richardson and Cox.A reply.Speech of Hon. Samuel Shellabarger of Ohio. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 27, 1863.
[Springfield, Ohio,Springfield News, print.,1863]
Vallandigham, Clement L.(Clement Laird),1820-1871
Richardson, William Alexander,1811-1875.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan,1824-1889
United States Politics and government Civil War.

List of United States Representatives from Ohio
Samuel Shellabarger Republican
8th March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863
7th March 4, 1865 – March 4, 1869
7th March 4, 1871 – March 4, 1873

Samuel Shellabarger
Birth: Dec. 10, 1817
Death: Aug. 7, 1896

US Congressman, US Diplomat. Elected to represent Ohio's 7th and 8th Districts in the United States House of Represenatatives, serving from 1861 to 1863, 1865 to 1869, and 1871 to 1873. Also served as a Member of the Ohio State House of Representatives from 1852 to 1853, and United States Minister to Portugal from 1869 to 1870.

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Spouse:
Elizabeth Brandriff Shellabarger (1820 - 1914)*

Children:
Anna A. Shellabarger (1853 - 1907)*
Elizabeth Shellabarger (1862 - 1889)*
Robert R Shellabarger (1864 - 1889)*

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Burial:
Ferncliff Cemetery
Springfield
Clark County
Ohio, USA

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Name: Hon. Samuel Shellabarger
Lawyer, ex-Member of Congress, ex-United States Minister Resident to Portugal, etc., was born in Clark county, Ohio, December 10th, 1817. His father, Samuel Shellabarger, a farmer, was a native of Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. His mother, Bethany (McCurdy) Shellabarger, was born near New Brunswick, New Jersey. His father's family was of German-Swiss extraction. Martin Shellabarger, the founder of the family in America, who emigrated from Switzerland to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, was a descendant of Henry Shellabarger (German--Schollenberger) who lived in the Canton of Uri, at the date of the battle at "Rutli Meadow," in 1307. Samuel graduated at Miami University, with the class of 1841, and subsequently studied law under the instruction of Hon. Samson Mason. He was admitted to the bar in 1846, and in 1847 entered on the practice of his profession in Miami county. In 1848, however, he returned to Springfield, where he has since resided, more or less regularly engaged in professional labors up to 1874. He is now engaged in his profession in Washington, District of Columbia. In 1852 he was elected to the Ohio Legislature on the Whig ticket, and served in the first Legislature under the present Constitution. In 1860 he was elected, as a Republican, to the Thirty-seventh Congress; in 1864 was elected, as a Republican, to the Thirty-ninth Congress; and in 1866 was elected, as a Republican, to the Fortieth Congress. In 1869 he was sent, as United States Minister Resident, to Portugal, but resigned that position in the following December. In 1870 he was elected to the Forty-second Congress, and served through that Congress. In this Congress he was Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, and of the Select Committee on Southern Affairs, and reported from this committee the bill known as "the Ku-Klux Bill," which, under his management, became a law. During the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, he was a member of the Elections Committee, and was author of and mover of important parts of the first Reconstruction Act. In 1873 he was appointed by the President a member of "the Civil Service Commission."

Name: Samuel Shellabarger
Elected Office(s): Representative
State: Ohio, Washington
Country: Portugal, USA
Biography: a Representative from Ohio; born near Enon, Clark County, Ohio, on December 10, 1817; attended the county schools and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Springfield, Ohio, in 1846; member of the State house of representatives in 1852 and 1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sev-enth Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; elected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1868; Minister to Portugal from April 21 to December 31, 1869; again elected to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); chairman, Committee on Commerce (Forty-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872; member of the United States Civil Service Commission in 1874 and 1875; continued the practice of law until his death in Washington, D.C., August 7, 1896; interment in Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX
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Shelley, Charles Miller
SHELLABARGER, Samuel, representative, was born in Clark county, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1817; maternal grandson of Thomas McCurdy of Belfast, Ireland, and —— (Adams) McCurdy of Amboy, N.J., and a descendant of Rudolph Schallenberger, one of the thirty-three founders of the Swiss League against Austria on Nov. 8, 1307, and joint owner of Schallenberg mountain. He was graduated at Miami university, Ohio, A.B., 1841, A.M., 1844: adopted the legal profession and practised in Springfield, Ohio, 1846–60. He was a representative in the fiftieth Ohio legislature. 1852–54; represented the eighth Ohio district in the 37th congress, 1861–63; the seventh district in the 39th, 40th and 42d congresses, 1865–69 and 1871–73, and served on special committees, on civil service, New Orleans riots, and assassination of President Lincoln, and as chairman of the committee on the provost-marshal's bureau and on commerce. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention, 1866; U.S. minister to Portugal, 1869–71, and a civil service commissioner, 1874–75, by appointment of President Grant. He became a law partner of Jeremiah Wilson in 1875, and the firm practised in Washington, D.C., 1875–96, being attorneys for the Union Pacific railroad. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. for Miami in 1891. He died in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 1896.