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- Hi my name is Samuel Mcelewee i was born in Haywood County, Tennessee. My parents were Robert and Georgianna McElwee.
-  I had to struggle to achieve a college education and law degree, but served i race for three terms in the Tennessee General Assembly (1882-88), where I was recognized as a “magnetic speaker, forcible debater, and indefatigable worker.”
- In addition to my schooling, i was strongly influenced by the words of Frederick Douglass, which he read in the latter’s newspaper, the National Era.
-  In 1878 i enrolled at Fisk University after the tutor made university officials aware of my  industrious student. i graduated in 1883, opened a store in Haywood County, and began reading law on my own. 
- Following the death of my wife in 1885, i placed my two small children with my wife’s parents and entered  Tennessee College in Nashville; i received a law degree in 1886.
- In 1888 his last foray into political life came when he attended the Republican National Convention and made an unsuccessful attempt to obtain an appointment as minister to Haiti.
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