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Samuel Atkins Eliot

Samuel Atkins Eliot (5 March 1798-29 January 1862) was the Whig Mayor of Boston from 1837 to 1840 (succeeding Samuel Turell Armstrong and preceding Jonathan Chapman) and a member of the US House of Representatives (W-MA 1) from 22 August 1850 to 3 March 1851 (succeeding Robert Charles Winthrop and preceding William Appleton).

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Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1798, and he served as president of the Boston Academy of Music from 1834 to 1847, in the State House from 1834 to 1837, as Mayor of Boston from 1837 to 1840, in the State Senate from 1843 to 1844, in the US House of Representatives from 1850 to 1851, and as Treasurer of Harvard University from 1842 to 1853. He died in Cambridge in 1862.

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