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William Smith (Virginia representative)

William Smith was an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century congressman from Virginia.

William Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 21st district
In office
March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827
Preceded byThomas Newton Jr.
Succeeded byLewis Maxwell
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 7th district
In office
March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823
Preceded byBallard Smith
Succeeded byJabez Leftwich
Personal details
BornUnknown
Chesterfield County, Virginia
DiedUnknown
Political partyJacksonian
Other political
affiliations
Democratic-Republican

Life and career edit

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]

Election of 1821 edit

Smith was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 53.17% of the vote, defeating fellow Democratic-Republican James Wilson.

References edit

Bibliography edit

  • "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present". bioguide.congress.gov. United States Congress. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  • Pulliam, David Loyd (1901). The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time. John T. West, Richmond. ISBN 978-1-2879-2059-5.
  • Swem, Earl Greg (1918). A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776-1918, and of the Constitutional Conventions. David Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing. ISBN 978-1-3714-6242-0.

External links edit

  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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