Samuel Livermore (14 May 1732 – 18 May 1803) was a member of the US House of Representatives from New Hampshire's 3rd district from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793, preceding John Samuel Sherburne, and a US Senator from New Hampshire from 4 March 1793 to 12 June 1801, succeeding Paine Wingate and preceding Simeon Olcott. He was a member of the Federalist Party.
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Samuel Livermore was born in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1732, and he became a lawyer in 1756 and moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1758. From 1780 to 1782 and from 1785 to 1786, he served in the Continental Congress, and he served as Chief Justice of the Superior Court from 1782 to 1789, as a member in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1793, and in the US Senate from 1793 to 1801. In 1801, he resigned due to ill health. He died in 1803, and his sons Arthur Livermore and Edward St. Loe Livermore would go on to serve as Representatives.