Samuel P. Bolling (January 10, 1819 – February 8, 1900) was an African-American landowner, politician, businessman, and former slave who served in the Virginia House of Delegates.

[3] After the Civil War Bolling amassed a large amount of property and worked as a farmer, builder, and brickmaker.

He married a woman by the name of Ellen, with whom he had six children, which included his son Phillip, who was elected to the House of Delegates in 1883.

In 1883 he was elected to the Cumberland County board of supervisors, a position that he was re-elected to the following year.

Bolling won a seat in the House of Delegates in 1885 and ran again in 1887, but lost to Nathaniel M.