Samuel W. Mardis

Samuel Wright Mardis (June 12, 1800 – November 14, 1836) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.

He received academic training, attended an "old field school",[clarification needed] and studied law.

He was admitted to the bar, and he commenced practice in Montevallo, Alabama in 1823.

He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses.

In 1835, he moved to Mardisville, Alabama in Talladega County and continued the practice of law.