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{{Short description|American politician}} {{about|the early American government official|his grandfather, the minister|Samuel Dexter (minister)|his father, the Massachusetts politician|Samuel Dexter (Massachusetts politician)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Samuel Dexter |image = Samuel Dexter.jpg |caption = |office = 3rd [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]] |president = [[John Adams]]<br />[[Thomas Jefferson]] |term_start = January 1, 1801 |term_end = May 13, 1801 |predecessor = [[Oliver Wolcott Jr.|Oliver Wolcott]] |successor = [[Albert Gallatin]] |office1 = 4th [[United States Secretary of War]] |president1 = John Adams |term_start1 = June 1, 1800 |term_end1 = January 31, 1801 |predecessor1 = [[James McHenry]] |successor1 = [[Henry Dearborn]] |jr/sr2 = United States Senator |state2 = [[Massachusetts]] |term_start2 = March 4, 1799 |term_end2 = May 30, 1800 |predecessor2 = [[Theodore Sedgwick]] |successor2 = [[Dwight Foster (1757β1823)|Dwight Foster]] |state3 = Massachusetts |district3 = {{ushr|MA|1|1st}} |alongside3 = [[Fisher Ames]], [[Benjamin Goodhue]], and [[Samuel Holten]] ([[General Ticket]]) |term_start3 = March 4, 1793 |term_end3 = March 3, 1795 |predecessor3 = [[Fisher Ames]] |successor3 = [[Theodore Sedgwick]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1761|5|14}} |birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts]], [[British America]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1816|5|4|1761|5|14}} |death_place = [[Athens, New York]], U.S. |resting_place = [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] |party = [[Federalist Party|Federalist]] (before 1812)<br />[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] (from 1812) |education = [[Harvard University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}} |occupation = Attorney |spouse = Katharine Gordon (m. 1786) |children = 4 |signature = Samuel Dexter Signature.svg |footnotes = }} [[File:Coat of Arms of Samuel Dexter.svg|upright|thumb|right|Coat of Arms of Samuel Dexter]] '''Samuel Dexter''' (May 14, 1761{{spaced ndash}}May 4, 1816)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://millercenter.org/president/jefferson/essays/dexter-1801-secretary-of-the-treasury|title=Samuel Dexter (1801)|date=October 4, 2016|website=Miller Center|language=en|access-date=December 3, 2019}}</ref> was an early [[United States|American]] statesman who served both in Congress and in the [[Cabinet of the United States|Presidential Cabinets]] of [[John Adams]] and [[Thomas Jefferson]]. A native of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], Dexter was a 1781 graduate of [[Harvard College]]. After receiving his degree he [[reading law|studied law]], attained [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admission to the bar]] in 1784, and began to practice in [[Lunenburg, Massachusetts]]. A [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist]], Dexter served in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] from 1788 to 1790. In 1792 he was elected to the [[United States House of Representatives]], and he served in the [[3rd United States Congress]]. The state legislature subsequently elected Dexter to the [[United States Senate]], and he served from March 1799 to May 1800. Dexter resigned his senate seat to accept appointment as the fourth [[United States Secretary of War]], and he served from 1800 to 1801. In January 1801, Dexter was appointed the third [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]], and he served until resigning in the day before his fortieth birthday. After leaving office, Dexter practiced law in [[Washington, D.C.]] until he returned to Boston in 1805. Dexter joined the [[Democratic-Republican Party]] because of its support for the [[War of 1812]], and he was a candidate for [[Governor of Massachusetts|governor]] in 1814 and 1815. In 1815, Dexter declined President [[James Madison]]'s appointment as [[United States Ambassador to Spain|Minister to Spain]]. He was a candidate for governor again in 1816, but died on May 4, 1816, aged 54, while visiting his son in [[Athens, New York]]. Dexter was buried at [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
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