In 1854, Blake ran for U.S. Congress and lost to Israel Washburn of the newly formed Republican Party over the issue of the extension of slavery into the U.S. territories.
Samuel Beckett | William Blake | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Pepys | Samuel L. Jackson | Blake's 7 | Blake Lively | Quentin Blake | Samuel R. Delany | Samuel Barber | Samuel Goldwyn | Samuel | Samuel Alito | Samuel Butler | Samuel Ramey | Blake | Samuel Morse | Samuel Gompers | Samuel de Champlain | Blake Edwards | Samuel Sewall | Stephanie Rawlings-Blake | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Hill | Samuel Fuller | Tchad Blake | Seamus Blake | Samuel Purchas | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood |
Samuel Blake Chapman (April 11, 1916 – December 22, 2006) was an American two-sport athletic star who played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball, spending nearly his entire career with the Philadelphia Athletics (1938–1941, 1945–1951).