Samuel Worthington Dorsey (1811 – October 18, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and planter.
During these last years he was also occupied with cotton planting, and he now abandoned his profession, and for the rest of his life was extensively engaged as a planter in Louisiana.
He went to Maryland for a visit in the spring of 1875, intending also to be present in New Haven at the meeting of his Yale class in June.
But the threatened overflow of the Mississippi River called him home; he sank under the exposure to which he was subjected, and died, October 18, at his residence in Tensas Parish, La.
Dorsey enjoyed the confidence and affection of a wide circle of friends for his high character.