Samuel Lilly (October 28, 1815 – April 3, 1880) was an American Democratic Party politician, who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1853 to 1855.
In Congress, he was chairman of the committee on expenditures in the Post Office Department.
[1] Lilly served as director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hunterdon County for eight years, and was brigadier general of the New Jersey Militia.
He was appointed by President James Buchanan as consul general of the United States to British India, with residence in Calcutta, from January 3, 1861, and served until July 4, 1862, when he resigned.
[1] Lilly was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hunterdon County from 1868–1873, and was one of the members of the board of managers of the New Jersey Insane Asylum in 1871.