Samuel McLean (congressman)

He attended the schools of Wyoming Valley and Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

He served as the attorney general of the provisional Territory of Jefferson (afterward Colorado) in 1860 and then moved to Bannack, Montana, in 1862.

He served in the militia as commander of a regiment with the rank of colonel, and was wounded several times during skirmishes against American Indians.

When the Territory of Montana was formed, McLean was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses and served from January 6, 1865, to March 3, 1867.

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Samuel McLean, Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana Territory