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Samuel Cook Silliman

Samuel Cook Silliman

American politician

Samuel Cook Silliman (also Samuel Cook Syllyman) (November 12, 1742 – February 14, 1795) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk. He served several non-consecutive terms starting in 1779 and ending in 1794.

Quick Facts Member of theConnecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Personal details ...

He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in all of the following sessions:

  • May 1779[2]
  • May 1780, October 1780[2]
  • October 1781, May 1782[2]
  • May 1783, October 1783[2]
  • October 1784, May 1785, October 1785[2]
  • October 1786, May 1787, October 1787[2]
  • October 1788, May 1789, October 1789[2]
  • May 1791[2]
  • May 1792, October 1792[2]
  • May 1794, October 1794[2]

Constitutional delegate

On November 12, 1787, the inhabitants of the town of Norwalk had a town meeting with Colonel Thomas Fitch as moderator. Silliman and Hezekiah Rogers were chosen as delegates to meet in a convention at Hartford, following January to ratify the United States Constitution.[3] Connecticut ratified the Constitution on January 8, 1788, making it the fifth state to do so.

References

  1. [1]
    Find A Grave
  2. [2]
    Roll of state officers and members of General Assembly of Connecticut, from 1776 to 1881
  3. [3]
    "Connecticut Elects 168 delegates for State Conventioin". teachingamericanhistory.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1794–1795
With: Taylor Sherman,
Eliphalet Lockwood 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
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 Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1792–1793
With: Job Bartram,
Samuel Comstock 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1791
With: Eliphalet Lockwood 		Succeeded by
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Preceded by
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 Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1788–1790
With: Thomas Belden,
Thaddeus Betts 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1786–1788
With: Eliphalet Lockwood,
Thomas Belden,
Hezekiah Rogers 		Succeeded by
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Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1784–1786
With: Stephen St. John,
Thaddeus Betts 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1783–1784
With: Stephen St. John,
Clapp Raymond 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1781–1782
With: Stephen St. John,
Eliphalet Lockwood 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1780–1781
With: Stephen St. John 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
1779
With: Matthew Mead 		Succeeded by
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