Samuel Finley Vinton (25 September 1792-11 May 1862) was a member of the US House of Representatives (NR-OH 7) from 4 March 1823 to 3 March 1833 (preceding William Allen), from OH-6 from 4 March 1833 to 3 March 1837 (succeeding William Creighton Jr. and preceding Calvary Morris), and from OH-12 from 4 March 1843 to 3 March 1851 (succeeding Joshua Mathiot and preceding John Welch). Born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, he practiced law in Gallipolis, Ohio before serving in Congress. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor in 1851 and became a railroad president in 1853, retiring to Washington DC a year later. He appraised the value of freed slaves in DC for President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 before dying that same year.