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Samuel Thatcher was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.He was born in Cambridge Mass. July 1 1776; was graduated from Harvard University in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in New Gloucester Maine (then a district of Massachusetts); moved to Warren in 1800; member of the Massachusetts house of representatives 1801-1811; was elected as a Federalist to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Lee; reelected to the Eighth Congress and served from December 6 1802 to March 3 1805; sheriff of Lincoln County Maine 1814–1821; member of the Maine house of representatives in 1824; moved to Bangor Maine in 1860 and died there July 18 1872; interment in Bangor’s Mount Hope Cemetery.
