Samuel McLean (U.S. Consul) explained

Samuel McLean
Birth Name:	Samuel McLean
Birth Date:	12 September 1797
Birth Place:	Alexandria, Virginia
Death Place:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Known For:	US Consul of Trinidad de Cuba
Employer:	U. S. Department of State
Occupation:	Consul

Samuel McLean (September 12, 1797 – March 19, 1881), was a United States Consul for Trinidad de Cuba from 1849 through 1855.^{[1] [2]} He was appointed at Missouri.^{[3] [4]}

Family

He married Susan Wilson Smoot of the prominent Smoot Family of Alexandria. After she died he married a Mrs Johnson of Louisiana and removed after the American Civil War to Philadelphia.

Samuel had several children, including Alice Lawrason McLean, Lucretia Hodgkinson McLean, Alexander Kerr McLean and Virginia McLean with his first wife; and Lillie McLean, Eliza McLean and Archie McLean, with his second wife.

Death

He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 19, 1881. He was buried in Alexandria.

See also

• Daniel McLean, Samuel's father
• Wilmer McLean, Samuel's brother

Notes and References

1. Official Register of the USA, 1849, "Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval, in the Service of the United States of America on the Thirteenth September of 1849." Page 6, Gideons & Co. Printers, 1849.
2. "Official Register of the USA," Washington, D.C., Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853 & 1855.
3. Book: Petroski, Catherine. A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail. 1997. UPNE. 9781555532970. en.
4. Book: May, Robert E.. Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America. 2004. Univ of North Carolina Press. 9780807855812. en.