US Congressman, Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of North Carolina. He was born one of three children as Samuel Mitchell Brinson to William George Brinson (1840-1896), and his wife Katie Elizabeth Chesnut Brinson (1842-1908), in New Bern, North Carolina, on March 20, 1870. He was educated locally and attended private schools and public schools. He then attended and graduated from the prestigious Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1891, and taught school in New Bern, North Carolina, from 1891 to 1892. He then studied law at the prestigious University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and graduated from the law department there in 1895. He was then admitted to the North Carolina State Bar in 1896 and commenced his practice of law in New Bern, North Carolina, shortly thereafter. He then served as the President of the Atlantic & Railroad Company in 1918, and as the County Superintendent of Public Instruction in Craven County, North Carolina, from 1902 to 1919. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative George Ezekial Hood (1875-1960), on March 4, 1919. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served North Carolina's 3rd District (Sixty-Sixth Congress and Sixty-Seventh Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1919, until his death in office on April 13, 1922. Following his death on April 13, 1922, while still serving in the United States Congress, a special election to fill the seat vacated by his death was held and he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Charles Laban Abernethy (1872-1955), shortly thereafter to finish his term with United States Representative Charles Laban Abernethy (1872-1955), being re-elected to another term on November 7, 1922. He passed away following a long and unspecified illness at the New Bern General Hospital in New Bern, North Carolina, on April 13, 1922, at the age of 52. An obituary noted that he had died of an undisclosed illness "that dated back to the close of the campaign in 1918." During the recess in the United States Congress, he had gone to the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, and, as his condition worsened, he went back to New Bern, North Carolina, where he was admitted to the New Bern General Hospital after his arrival, six days before his death. His official cause of death on his death certificate was listed as hepatic cirrhosis of the liver. Following his death, fifteen members of the United States Congress were appointed to attend the funeral. His funeral service was conducted by the Reverend W. A. Ayers and was held at the First Baptist Church in New Bern, North Carolina, with his body being buried in the Family Plot in Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern, North Carolina. A Member of the Baptist Faith, he was also involved in several prominent organizations and clubs during his lifetime including the Royal Arcanum, the Elks, the Shriners, the Freemasons, the Junior Order, and the Knights Templars. He was married to Ruth Martin Scales Brinson (1878-1919), on January 16, 1901, in Rowan, North Carolina, and the couple had two children together, a daughter named Mary Steele Brinson (1903-1995), and a son named George Chesnut Brinson (1910-1912). His wife Ruth predeceased him passing away from influenza in New Bern, North Carolina, on January 19, 1919, at the age of 40, and she was buried in the Family Plot in Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern, North Carolina.