Samuel Eddy
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Eddy was elected as Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses, and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1825). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress and for election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress. He served as associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court in 1826 and 1827, and served as chief justice 1827 to 1835. Eddy wrote the Court's first published decision, ''Stoddard v. Martin'' in 1828. Eddy died in Providence, Rhode Island, February 3, 1839, and was interred in North Burial Ground.
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1819. Provided by Wikipedia
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