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1880s US REPUBLICAN PARTY CONGRESSMAN ERIE COUNTY PA BRAINERD AUTOGRAPH SIGNED !
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SAMUEL MYRON BRAINERD(1842 – 1898)
US REPUBLICAN PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA 1883-1885,
CHAIRMAN OF THE ERIE COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE IN 1880
&
DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF ERIE COUNTY, PA 1872-1875.
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HERE’S BRAINERD’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM and SIGNED:
“S. M. Brainerd
Erie
Penna”
The document measures 7” x 3¼” and is in very fine condition.
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BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLE
S. M. BRAINERD
Samuel Myron Brainerd
(November 13, 1842 – November 21, 1898) was a
Republican
member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from
Pennsylvania
.
Samuel M. Brainerd was born in
Albion, Pennsylvania
. He attended the public schools,
Edinboro Normal School
, and
University of Michigan Law School
in
Ann Arbor, Michigan
. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in
North East, Pennsylvania
. He served as district attorney of
Erie County, Pennsylvania
, from 1872 to 1875. He moved to
Erie, Pennsylvania
, in 1874 and continued the practice of law. He was chairman of the Republican county committee in 1880.
Brainerd was elected as a Republican to the
Forty-eighth
Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884. He resumed the practice of law in Erie and died there in 1898. Interment in
Erie Cemetery
(
Sec. MM, Lot 58)
.
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