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|birth_name = Samuel Fenton Cary
|birth_date = {{birth date|1814|2|18}}
|birth_place = [[Cincinnati]],
|death_date = {{death date and age|1900|9|29|1814|2|18}}
|death_place =
|restingplace = [[Spring Grove Cemetery]]
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] (Before 1868)<br>[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] (1868–1876)<br>[[Greenback Party|Greenback]] (1876–1889)
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|children = 6
|education = [[Miami University|Miami University, Oxford]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Cincinnati]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]])
|signature = Signature of Samuel Fenton Cary.png
}}
'''Samuel Fenton Cary''' (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900) was a [[congressman]] from Ohio and significant [[temperance movement]] leader in the 19th century. Cary became well-known nationally as a [[prohibitionist]] author and lecturer. Cary represented Ohio in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] (1867–69) and many of the elections he participated in involved future president [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] multiple times from filling his seat, to the lieutenant governorship and the presidency.
==Life==
Cary was born on February 18, 1814 in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]].<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/?id=wW9GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA480 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XI |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=480 |year=1909 |access-date=2021-01-13 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He graduated from [[Miami University]] in 1835 and from the [[Cincinnati Law School]] in 1837 being admitted to the bar the same year, practicing law out of his in office in Cincinnati. He was elected a judge in the [[Supreme Court of Ohio|Ohio State Supreme Court]], but decided to pass the job up. Instead, he got the post of [[Paymaster General]] for the state of [[Ohio]] during the terms of [[Governor of Ohio|Governors]] [[Mordecai Bartley]] and [[William Bebb]].
He stopped working in law in 1845 to become a farmer and also to devote himself to temperance and [[Abolitionism in the United States|anti-slavery]] groups. He gave lectures and wrote books on [[prohibition]] and [[slavery]] matters. He was a delegate to the [[Republican National Convention]] in 1864 supporting [[Abraham Lincoln]] for a second term who initially had won. Cary then became Collector of Internal Revenue for [[Ohio's 1st congressional district|Ohio's first district]] in 1865.
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Cary joined the [[United States Greenback Party|Greenback Party]] and was the nominee for Vice President of the United States in the [[1876 United States presidential election|1876 election]] after [[Newton Booth]] declined to run. He ran with [[Peter Cooper]] who was running for the presidency against [[Rutherford B. Hayes]]. Hayes won the presidency along with his running mate, [[William A. Wheeler]]. Cooper and Cary also came behind the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidates [[Samuel J. Tilden]] and [[Thomas A. Hendricks]].
Cary lived out the rest of his days writing literature and supporting fellow [[prohibitionists]]. He was twice married, first to Maria Louisa Allen, October 18, 1836
==References==
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