Sampson, Ezekiel S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1831, in Huron county, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney in 1856-58, in Sigourney, Iowa. He was captain in the fifth Iowa infantry in 1861 and 1862, and lieutenant-colonel in 1863 and 1864. He was a state senator in 1866; and was judge of the sixth judicial district of Iowa from 1867 to 1875. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.