On March 11, 1805, Congress approved the request and placed Samson on the Massachusetts Invalid Pension Roll at the rate of four dollars a month.
12.
During his time as Auditor-General, he was outspoken often particularly in regard to accounting methods, and the increasing funds spent on the old-age and invalid pension systems.
13.
During his congressional service Nes served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions and the United States House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business, both during the Thirtieth Congress.
14.
He was bedridden for much of the time after September 1884, and in July 1885 applied to Washington for an invalid pension based on a respiratory illness contracted during the siege of Petersburg.
15.
The United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions passed a bill on May 24, 1892 granting a pension to Mary Jewett Telford, based on her service as a nurse during the Civil War.
16.
Subsequently, jurisdiction of the Committee on Invalid Pensions included only matters relating to pensions of the Civil War, with the committee reporting general and special bills authorizing payments of pensions and bills for relief of soldiers of that war.
17.
In his first term, he was a member of the Committee on Roads and Canals, and a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions the second term . and served as U . S . Envoy to Chile from 1854 to 1857.
18.
The Commonwealth Government's introduction of the old age pension in 1909 which was soon supplemented by an invalid pension and introduction of the maternity bonus in 1912, was the onset of the welfare state and a death knoll for friendly societies.
19.
One document in his pension file is a petition drawn up and signed by 21 members of the 55th Regiment, Co . F, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, who had served with him and supported his claim for " Invalid Pension . " Haney was receiving $ 30 per month in 1915.
20.
He was prosecuting attorney for Richland County, Ohio, from 1839 to 1843, and was then elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses ( March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847 ), where he was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions ( Twenty-eighth Congress ).
