What is Samuel C. Pomeroy?
{{Infobox Senator |image name=Samuel C. Pomeroy - Brady-Handy.jpg |width= |jr/sr1=Senator |state1=[[Kansas]] |party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |term1=April 4, 1861{{en dash}}March 3, 1873 |preceded1= |succeeded1=[[John James Ingalls|John J. Ingalls]] |office2=Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] |term2=1852{{en dash}}1853 |birth_name=Samuel Clarke Pomeroy |birth_date={{Birth date|1816|1|3|mf=y}} |birth_place=[[Southampton, Massachusetts]], U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1891|8|27|1816|1|3|mf=y}} |death_place=[[Whitinsville, Massachusetts]], U.S. |spouse=Lucy Gaylord (m. April 23, 1846-1863 her death), Martha Stanwood Mann Whiting (m. September 20, 1866-1891) |education=[[Amherst College]] |profession=[[Politician]], [[Teacher]], Railroad President |footnotes= }} '''Samuel Clarke Pomeroy''' (January 3, 1816 &ndash; August 27, 1891) was a [[United States]] senator from [[Kansas]] in the mid-19th century. He was in the [[United States Senate]] during the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web| url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000423| title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present | access-date=July 5, 2005}}</ref> Pomeroy was also in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]].He also was the mayor of [[Atchison, Kansas]] from 1858 to 1859.<ref name=bio/> He was also the second president of the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad]], and the first president to oversee any of the railroad's construction and operations. Pomeroy succeeded [[Cyrus K. Holliday]] as president of the railroad on January 13, 1864.<ref>{{cite book|author=Waters, Lawrence Leslie| year=1950| title=Steel Trails to Santa Fe| publisher=University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas }}</ref> He was a Republican. ==Career== ===Early life=== Samuel C. Pomeroy was born on January 3, 1816 at [[Southampton, Massachusetts]]. He was a student at [[Amherst College]].<ref name=cyclopedia/> Pomeroy was against the politics of slavery. In 1