Samuel Augustus Bridges (27 January 1802-14 January 1884) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-PA 6) from 6 March 1848 to 3 March 1849 (succeeding John Westbrook Hornbeck and preceding Thomas Ross), from PA-7 from 4 March 1853 to 3 March 1855 (succeeding John Alexander Morrison and preceding Samuel Carey Bradshaw), and from PA-10 from 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1879 (succeeding William Mutchler and preceding Reuben Knecht Bachman).
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Samuel Augustus Bridges was born in Colchester, Connecticut in 1802, and he became a lawyer in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1829 and in Allentown in 1830. He served as Allentown town clerk from 1837 to 1842, Lehigh County deputy attorney general from 1837 to 1844, and in the US House of Representatives from 1848 to 1849, 1853 to 1855, and 1877 to 1879. He died in 1884.