Samuel Fenton Cary

Samuel Fenton Cary (February 18, 1814 – September 29, 1900) was an American politician who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio and significant temperance movement leader in the 19th century. Cary became well known nationally as a prohibitionist author and lecturer.

Early life Cary was born on February 18, 1814, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended public schools. He graduated from Miami University in 1835 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1837. and final versions of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, one of three and four (respectively) House Republicans to do so. He lost his reelection campaign in 1868 to Job E. Stevenson.

Personal Cary was twice married. First to Maria Louisa Allen on October 18, 1836; she died of consumption on September 25, 1847. They had three children: Martha Louisa Cary, Ella Woodnutt Cary and Lou Allen Cary. In 1849, he married Lida Stillwell. He is interred with his family in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.