Marshall, Samuel S
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator,. was born in 1824 in Gallatin county, Ill.
He was elected to the Illinois state legis-- lature in 1847; was elected state's attorney, serving two years; and in 1851 was. elected a judge of the circuit court, in which position he remained until 1854. He was elected to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses from Illinois. He was elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second and forty-third congresses as a democrat. In 1867 he received the unanimous vote of his party in the minois legislature for United States senator.