Samuel Hammond (21 September 1757 – 11 September 1842) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-GA) from 4 March 1803 to 2 February 1805, preceding Cowles Mead.
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Samuel Hammond was born in Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia in 1757, and he fought against the Native Americans during Lord Dunmore's War in 1774, against the Cherokee in 1776, and in the Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey campaigns of the American Revolutionary War. He moved to South Carolina in 1779 and fought in the Southern Theater of the war before relocating to Savannah, Georgia. In 1793, he commanded a corps of Georgia volunteers during the war against the Creeks in Alabama, and he went on to serve as Surveyor General of Alabama in 1796, a member of the State House from 1796 to 1798, a State Senator from 1799 to 1800, a member of the US House of Representatives from 1803 to 1805, Colonel Commandant of the St. Louis District of the Louisiana Territory from 1805 to 1824, President of the Bank of St. Louis, Surveyor General of South Carolina in 1825, and Secretary of State of South Carolina from 1831 to 1835. He died in 1842.