Samuel E. Hogg

Samuel E. Hogg (April 18, 1783 – May 28, 1842) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives that represented Tennessee from 1817 to 1819. U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee Born in Halifax, North Carolina, Hogg attended public schools in Caswell County and taught for a while, before studying medicine in Gallatin, Tennessee around 1804. He subsequently moved to Lebanon County, Tennessee and joine... more

Samuel E. Hogg (April 18, 1783 – May 28, 1842) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives that represented Tennessee from 1817 to 1819. U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee Born in Halifax, North Carolina, Hogg attended public schools in Caswell County and taught for a while, before studying medicine in Gallatin, Tennessee around 1804. He subsequently moved to Lebanon County, Tennessee and joined the army as a surgeon: After three years of working as a surgeon in the army he was given a leave of absence after an encounter with death. He then came back to Tennessee where he worked as a waiter in a local diner for a few years before being elected. Hogg was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819. He went back into practicing medicine in Lebanon, Tennessee until 1828, in Nashville from 1828 to 1836, in... less