Samuel Salter

Samuel Salter

Member

Photo credit:

McAtee, William, comp. Souvenir: Portraits and Biographies of the Members of the Legislature of Pennsylvania and Heads of Departments, Session of 1895. Harrisburg, Pa.: The Roshon Portrait Company, 1895.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1891-1892 Representative Republican
1895-1896 Representative Republican
1899-1900 Representative Republican
Counties Philadelphia

Biography

01/13/1846 - 06/26/1930


SALTER, Samuel, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, January 13, 1846 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company B, 154th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); private, Company C, 181st Regiment, 20th Pennsylvania Volunteer Calvary (1864-1865, Civil War); house painter; fireman, Pennsylvania State Senate (1887-1889); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1890, 1894 and 1898; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892, 1896, 1900); deputy coroner, Philadelphia; died, June 26, 1930 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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