Samuel Finley Vinton
| Samuel Finley Vinton | |
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sketch from Historical Collections of Ohio
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 7th district |
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In office March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1833 |
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| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | William Allen |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 6th district |
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In office March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837 |
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| Preceded by | William Creighton, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Calvary Morris |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 12th district |
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In office March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1851 |
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| Preceded by | Joshua Mathiot |
| Succeeded by | John Welch |
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September 25, 1792 South Hadley, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 11, 1862 (aged 69) Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | Gallipolis, Ohio |
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| Spouse(s) | Romaine Madeleine Bureau |
| Children | two |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
Samuel Finley Vinton (September 25, 1792 – May 11, 1862) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from March 4, 1823 to March 3, 1837 and again from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1851.
Born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Vinton was the son of Abiatha and Sarah (Day) Vinton. He graduated from Williams College in 1814, paying his way through school by teaching. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1816. He then moved to southern Ohio and practiced law in Gallipolis. On August 18, 1824, he married Romaine Madeleine Bureau, daughter of Jean Pierre Roman Bureau and Madeleine Françoise Charlotte Marret, in Gallia County, Ohio. She died in 1831, after the couple had had a son and a daughter, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren.
After holding various local offices, he was elected to the Eighteenth Congress on a non-partisan ballot. Vinton was re-elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty Third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. In the Twenty-third Congress he was an Anti-Jacksonian Democrat and in the Twenty-fourth and succeeding Congresses he was a Whig.
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