Samuel B. Romaine
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Life
He was the son of Colonel Benjamin Romaine (1764–1844, several times Grand Sachem of the Tammany SocietyTammany Hall
Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...
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Samuel Romaine was a member of the New York State Assembly
New York State Assembly
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in 1816-17 and from 1819 to 1822, and was Speaker
Speaker of the New York State Assembly
The Speaker of the New York State Assembly is the highest official in the New York State Assembly, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party....
in 1822.
His son Benjamin Romaine, Jr. was a well known Whig politician in the 1850s in New York's 15th Ward.
Sources
- http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C02E7D91631EF34BC4D52DFB366838D679FDE&oref=slogin NYT on May 15, 1866
- http://dl.tufts.edu/view_votingrecord.jsp?pid=tufts:MS115.002.NY.1822.00071 Speaker election result