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{{Short description|American politician}}
{{infobox congressman▼
|name=Samuel Finley Vinton
|image=Samuel Finley Vinton by howe.png
|caption=sketch from [[Historical Collections of Ohio]]
|state1=[[Ohio]]
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|term_start1=March 4, 1823
|term_end1=March 3,
|preceded1=District created
|succeeded1=[[
▲|district3={{ushr|Ohio|12|12th}}
|term_start3=March 4, 1843
|term_end3=March 3, 1851
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|alma_mater=[[Williams College]]
|spouse=Romaine Madeleine Bureau
|children=2, including [[Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren|Madeleine]]
}}
'''Samuel Finley Vinton''' (September 25, 1792 – May 11, 1862) was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Ohio]] from March 4, 1823 to March
==Biography==
Born in [[South Hadley, Massachusetts]], Vinton was the son of Abiatha and Sarah (Day) Vinton. He graduated from [[Williams College]] in 1814, paying his way through school by teaching. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in [[Connecticut]] in 1816. He then moved to southern [[Ohio]] and practiced law in [[Gallipolis, Ohio|Gallipolis]].
After holding various local offices, he was elected to the [[Eighteenth United States Congress|Eighteenth Congress]] on a non-partisan ballot. Vinton was re-elected to the [[Nineteenth United States Congress|Nineteenth]], [[Twentieth United States Congress|Twentieth]], [[Twenty-first United States Congress|Twenty-first]], [[Twenty-second United States Congress|Twenty-second]], [[Twenty-third United States Congress|Twenty Third]] and [[Twenty-fourth United States Congress|Twenty-fourth]] Congresses. In the Twenty-third Congress he was an Anti-Jacksonian [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] and in the Twenty-fourth and succeeding Congresses he was a [[United States Whig Party|Whig]].
He did not seek re-election in 1836, returning to Ohio to his successful practice of law. Whig [[Presidential elector]] in 1840 for [[William Henry Harrison|Harrison]]/[[John Tyler|Tyler]].<ref>[[#taylor1899|Taylor 1899]] : 193</ref> However, he returned to Congress in 1843, again as a [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]. In his second service in Congress, he was a member of the [[Twenty-eighth United States Congress|Twenty-eighth]], [[Twenty-ninth United States Congress|Twenty-ninth]], [[Thirtieth United States Congress|Thirtieth]], and [[Thirty-first United States Congress|Thirty-first]] Congresses. He was noted for his service on the [[Public Lands Committee]], helping to create the [[United States Department of the Interior]], and, as [[Thomas Ewing]] put it, had "more influence in the House of Representatives, much more, than any other man in it." He was an authority on [[parliamentary procedure]] and in the Thirtieth Congress, he declined the Speakership but took the chairmanship of the [[U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means|Ways and Means Committee]] instead.
President [[Millard Fillmore]] offered him the post of [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]], but he declined. He did not run for re-election in 1850, instead running for [[Governor of Ohio]] as a Whig in 1851. In 1853, he became president of the [[Cleveland and Toledo Railroad]], retiring the next year to [[Washington, D.C.]]
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==Legacy==
[[Vinton County, Ohio]] and [[Vinton, Ohio]] are named for him.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=17558|title = Profile for Vinton County, Ohio, OH|publisher= ePodunk|
==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |title=Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... |first1=William Alexander |last1=Taylor |first2=Aubrey Clarence |last2=Taylor |year=1899 |publisher=State of Ohio |volume=1 |ref=taylor1899|page=193
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*{{cite book |ref=walker|title=History of Athens County, Ohio And Incidentally of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta etc. |last=Walker |first=Charles M |year=1869 |publisher =[[Robert Clarke & Company]] |pages=
==External links==
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*{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Vinton, Samuel Finley|year=1900 |short=x}}
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