OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Samuel Lewis Southard 

BORN:
June 9, 1787
Basking Ridge, New Jersey

DIED:
June 26, 1842 (aged 55)
Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.

EDUCATION:
College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), 1804

POLITICAL PARTIES:
Democratic-Republican 
National Republican (Anti-Jacksonian)
Whig

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1805:
Tutor for a family near Fredericksburg, Virginia
1809:
Admitted to the Virginia Bar
1811:
Returned t0 New Jersey,
Began practicing law in Flemington, New Jersey
1815:
Member of the New Jersey State General Assembly
1815-1820:
Associated Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
1821-1823:
U.S. Senator from New Jersey (Democratic-Republican)
1823-1829:
U.S. Secretary of the Navy
1825:
Interim U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 
1828:
Interim U.S. Secretary of War 
1829-1833:
Attorney General of New Jersey
1832-1833:
Governor of New Jersey
1833-1842:
U.S. Senator from New Jersey,
Elected as an Anti-Jacksonian and later became a Whig
1841-1842:
President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate 

SOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
U.S. Navy
Wikipedia

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