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Samuel McLean (August 7, 1826 – July 16, 1877) was an American politician who representedMontana in theUnited States House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867.
McLean was born atSummit Hill, Pennsylvania. He attended the schools of Wyoming Valley andLafayette College inEaston, Pennsylvania. He studied law withAndrew Horatio Reeder, was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in present-dayJim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
McLean served as the prosecuting attorney ofCarbon County, Pennsylvania, 1855–1860. He received anhonoraryMaster of Arts degree from Lafayette in 1857.
He served as the attorney general of the provisionalTerritory of Jefferson (afterwardColorado) in 1860 and then moved toBannack, Montana, in 1862. He served in the militia as commander of a regiment with the rank ofcolonel, and was wounded several times during skirmishes againstAmerican Indians.
When theTerritory of Montana was formed, McLean was elected as aDemocrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from January 6, 1865, to March 3, 1867. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1866. After leaving Congress, he was the president of McLean Silver Mining Co.
McLean later moved toVirginia and settled on a plantation nearBurkeville. He died in Burkeville, Virginia on July 16, 1877, and was buried in the churchyard of Burkeville's Presbyterian Church.
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| Preceded by office created | Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives fromMontana Territory January 6, 1865 - March 3, 1867 | Succeeded by |
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| One at-large seat (1993–2023) |
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