Samuel Shellabarger (10 December 1817 – 7 August 1896) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OH 8) from 4 March 1861 to 3 March 1863 (succeeding Benjamin Stanton and preceding William Johnston) and from OH-7 from 4 March 1865 to 3 March 1869 (succeeding Samuel S. Cox and preceding James J. Winans) and from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1873 (succeeding Winans and preceding Lawrence T. Neal).
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Samuel Shellabarger was born in Enon, Ohio in 1817, and he became a lawyer in Springfield in 1846 and served in the State House from 1852 to 1853. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863, from 1865 to 1869, and from 1871 to 1873 and as ambassador to Portugal in 1869, and he drafted a successful anti-Ku Klux Klan bill which was signed into law as the Civil Rights Act of 1871. He died in 1896.