Samuel Henry Piles (December 28, 1858 - March 11, 1940) is the United States Senator from Washington.
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The pile was born near Smithland, Kentucky, son of Samuel Henry Piles (died 1904) and Gabriella Lillard. The senior Piles was the sheriff of Livingston County, and then practiced the law. The younger Piles attended private schools in Kentucky, and studied law. Piles was admitted to a bar in 1883, and began practicing in Snohomish, Territory of Washington.
He moved to Spokane in 1886 and later in the same year to Seattle, where he was involved in legal practice. He was an assistant prosecutor for the third district of Washington District from 1887 to 1889 and became a Seattle city lawyer from 1888 to 1889. He was also a general counselor of the Pacific Coast Company from 1895 to 1905.
In January 1905, Piles was elected a Republican to the US Senate. He served a period from March 4, 1905 to March 3, 1911. He was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1910. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Coastal and Insular Surveys Committee (Fifty Nine through the Sixty-First Congress). After leaving the Senate, he continued his legal practice in Seattle.
In 1922, Piles was appointed by President Warren Harding as Minister of Colombia, an office he held until 1928.
He retired from active activities and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he died in 1940; interment is at Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle.
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