Samuel Hervey Laughlin (1796 - 1850)

Born 1 May 1796 in Washington County, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Clarke (Bass) Laughlin — married 20 Oct 1816 in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 5 May 1850 at age 54 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Biography of Samuel Harvey Laughlin

Samuel Hervey Laughlin was born in 1796 in Washington County, Virginia. Laughlin became a lawyer and newspaper editor and state senator in Tenn. He died in 1850 in Washington D.C.^[1]

Samuel Hervey Laughlin, editor, legislator, and politician, was born in Washington County, Virginia, 1 May 1796, and died in Washington, D.C., 5 May, 1850. He practiced law in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (1815); was elected attorney general (1817); became a state senator (1838); twice editor of the NASHVILLE UNION (1835-1837; 1844-?); involved in Democratic politics as a member of the "Immortal Thirteen" and as a presidential elector to the 1840 national convention; appointed President James K. Polk's Recorder in the Grand Land office (1845).

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Laughlin, Samuel Hervey was born on May 1, 1796 in Washington County, Virginia to John L. and Sarah Dunkin Laughlin, who later removed to Warren County, Tennessee. He read law with one, Major McCampbell, and soon after obtained a law license and moved to Murfreesboro around September 1815 to begin his practice there. He met, and soon after married, Mary Clark Bass, daughter of James A. and Temperance Jordan Bass, on October 24, 1816. Our subject replaced David Wendel as Murfreesboro’s third mayor in April 1819, as a result of the latter’s resignation at that time, and finished out that year as mayor. He also served as alderman during the first months of 1819 and also in 1820 and from 1826-1828. He was of the Methodist persuasion and was one of the trustees appointed to build a church building in Murfreesboro in 1823. Laughlin moved his family to Nashville in 1832 where he became editor of the “National Banner and “Daily Advertiser”. He was also the founder and editor of the “Nashville Union” at its beginning in 1835. He moved back to Warren County in 1837 and represented that county and surrounding counties in the Tennessee State Senate from 1839-1845. Laughlin was appointed recorder of the General Land Office in Washington, D.C. on March 4, 1845 by President James K. Polk. He had lost his wife to death in 1840 and they were the parents of five children: Samuel Houston, Ellen, Andrew Jackson, Isabella, and Mary Virginia. Mayor Laughlin died in Washington D. C. on May 5, 1850 and is buried there in Congressional Cemetery. ^[2]

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Sources

1. ↑ From the description of Samuel H. Laughlin Collection, 1845. (East Tennessee State University). WorldCat record id: 33939834
2. ↑ http://rutherfordtnhistory.org/the-first-five-mayors-of-murfreesboro-2/

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