William Smith | |
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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives from Virginia's 21st district | |
In office March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827 | |
Preceded by | Thomas Newton Jr. |
Succeeded by | Lewis Maxwell |
Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives from Virginia's 7th district | |
In office March 4,1821 –March 3,1823 | |
Preceded by | Ballard Smith |
Succeeded by | Jabez Leftwich |
Personal details | |
Born | Unknown Chesterfield County,Virginia |
Died | Unknown |
Political party | Jacksonian |
Other political affiliations | Democratic-Republican |
William Smith was an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century congressman from Virginia.
Born in Chesterfield,Virginia,Smith graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1807. He studied law and relocated to Greenbrier County,Virginia. [1]
During the War of 1812 Smith served as a captain of artillery,stationed in Norfolk,Virginia. [2]
Smith was first elected to the House of Delegates for the session of 1819/20. [3]
He was elected a Democratic-Republican,Crawford Republican and Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1820,serving from 1821 to 1827. [4]
Smith served a second time in the House of Delegates for the session of 1828/29. [5]
Smith was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 from Greenbrier County,serving from a district made up of Monroe,Greenbriar,Bath,Botetourt,Alleghay,Pocahontas and Nicolas. He served there on the Committee on the Executive Department. [6]
In the 1840s,Smith was an aide to Democratic Governor James McDowell 1843–46,and served as a presidential elector in 1844. [7]
Smith was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 from Greenbrier County,serving from a district made up of Greenbrier County,from an Assembly district made up of the transmontane Greenbrier,Pocahontas,Fayette,Raleigh,Nicholas and Kanawha Counties. [8]
In the 1850s,Smith served from Greenbriar in the Virginia Senate in the sessions of 1857/58 and 1859/60. On the eve of the American Civil War,he again served in January 1861. [9]
Smith was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 53.17% of the vote,defeating fellow Democratic-Republican James Wilson.
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