David B. Samuel was an attorney

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, jurist

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, and Democratic

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 politician

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 in Shreveport

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, the seat of Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana

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.

Samuel was born in Little Rock

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, Arkansas

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, and graduated from Peabody High School there. He obtained his legal credentials from the University of Arkansas

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 Law School in Fayetteville

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. He moved to Shreveport in 1900. He was a member of both the American and Louisiana bar associations.

He married the former Blanche Daniel of Lonoke

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, the seat of Lonoke County, near Little Rock. They had one daughter.

Samuel was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives

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 in 1912 and served a single term until 1916. Samuel had three at-large colleagues from Caddo Parish (prior to the implementation of single-member districts in 1972), Joseph E. Johnston, Jr., Perry P. Keith, and Speaker Lee Emmett Thomas

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. Samuel was elected Shreveport municipal judge

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 in 1916, a position which he retained for the remainder of his life.

Samuel was a member of B'Nai Zion Jewish congregation. He also joined the El Karubah Shrine

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 Temple, the Elks

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, the Freemasons

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, the Knights of Pythias

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, and the Woodmen of the World

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, all in Shreveport.

He is interred at the Stoner Avenue Jewish Cemetery in Shreveport.