Ballard Smith

Ballard Smith ( * in Hanover County, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1821 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Neither the birth nor the date of death of Smith have survived. Also about his education is not known. He served during the Revolutionary War as an officer in the Continental Army; thereafter he was an officer in the U.S. Army, where he rose in the 1790s up to the Major. Politically, he later became a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the years 1810 to 1813, he sat in the House of Representatives from Virginia.

In the congressional elections of 1814, Smith was the seventh constituency of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hugh Caperton on March 4, 1815. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1821 three legislative periods. Between 1824 and 1826, and again in the years 1836 and 1837, Smith was once again a member of the State Parliament of Virginia. After that trace of him.