Samuel Myron Brainerd was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Samuel M. Brainerd was born in Albion, Pennsylvania

Albion, Pennsylvania

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. He attended the public schools, Edinboro Normal School

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

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, and University of Michigan Law School

University of Michigan Law School

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 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in North East, Pennsylvania

North East, Pennsylvania

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. He served as district attorney of Erie County, Pennsylvania

Erie County, Pennsylvania

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, from 1872 to 1875. He moved to Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie, Pennsylvania

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, in 1874 and continued the practice of law. He was chairman of the Republican county committee in 1880.

Brainerd was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884. He resumed the practice of law in Erie and died there in 1898. Interment in Erie Cemetery

Erie Cemetery

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