Dunlap, Samuel (IL State Representative)

Flourished: 1840-XX-XX Lawrence County, Illinois

Dunlap served as a county official for Lawrence County between 1821-49. He worked as county surveyor for Lawrence County and platted Charlottesville. He married Lucinda Cunningham in 1833. In 1840, Dunlap lived in Lawrence County and had five people in his household. Dunlap represented Lawrence County in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1840-42. He represented Crawford, Jasper, part of Richland, and Lawrence counties in the Illinois Senate from 1844-46. He won reelection and represented Crawford, Jasper, part of Richland, and Lawrence counties again in the Illinois Senate from 1846-48.

Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois (Philadelphia: J. L. McDonough, 1883), 107, 344; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Lawrence County, 4 July 1833, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Lawrence County, IL, 172; John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac, 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 209, 212, 213.