Pettengill, Samuel B. (Samuel Berrett), 1886-1974

Samuel Barrett Pettengill (1886-1974) was born in Portland, Or., where his father edited the Portland Oregonian. After the death of his mother he and his father returned to the family farm in Grafton, Vermont. Pettengill graduated from Yale Law School and began his law practice in South Bend, Ind. He was Representative to Congress from Indiana for nine years. He was interested in questions of transportation and oil and sat on the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Disagreeing with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and with New Deal policies and ideas, he left Congress in 1939. The newspaper column he then began, "The Gentleman from Indiana", was syndicated widely, and he spoke over the ABC radio network on public affairs for two years. In 1940 he went to Chicago to work as assistant to the president of the Pure Oil Company. He retired in 1956 to Grafton, where he continued to write and speak in favor of constitutional government and free enterprise. He was a founder of the Grafton Historical Society, and wrote his fifth book, The Yankee pioneers: a saga of courage, in 1971 at the age of 85. His autobiography, My life, was posthumously published in 1979.

From the description of Samuel B. Pettengill papers, 1849-1975. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122917511

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