Member Biography
Samuel Moore Barclay
Biography
10/17/1802 - 01/03/1853
Samuel Moore Barclay (Whig15) Bedford and Somerset Counties 1837-1841
Early Life:
Samuel Moore Barclay, born October 17, 1802, Bedford, Pennsylvania; son of Lieutenant Colonel Hugh and Esther (Hetty) Fulton Barclay, Bedford Academy; engaged, farming; studied law under his older brother Josiah Barclay; admitted, Bedford County bar, 1827; law partnership with Francis Butter Murdoch, Murdoch and Barclay; elected, National Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1833-1834; elected, Whig, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1837-1841; married, Anna Eliza Sophia Morrison, 1839 (d.1839), son Joseph; died, January 3, 1853, during a business trip, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interment, Old Presbyterian Graveyard, Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:
Member, New Jerusalem (or Swedenborgan) Church, Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Politics:
Elected, National Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 18331834.
Elected, Whig, Pennsylvania State Senate, 15th district, Bedford and Somerset Counties, 1837-1841. The Senate was initially organized by the Whigs who recognized the disputed election of Whigs James Hanna and William Wagner. This was reversed following the end of the Buckshot War with the seating of Democrats Samuel Stevenson and Michael Snyder. The Whigs regained one seat when Democrat Thomas Bell (Chester) was replaced by Nathaniel Brooke, a Whip, 1838-1839.
Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:
Not available currently.
Legacy:
Francis Butter Murdoch, served, first lawyer, Dredd Scott trial, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1846.
Cited:
Cox, Harold. "Senate Members B". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
Guide to the Samuel Moore Barclay papers, 1818-1849 (State of Maryland Historical Collections)
Samuel Moore Barclay (1802-1852) - Find a Grave Memorial