J. Hyatt Smith

John Hyatt Smith ( born April 10, 1824 in Saratoga, New York; † 7 December 1886 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American clergyman and politician. Between 1881 and 1883 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hyatt Smith was taught by his father. He then worked for a time as clerk in Detroit ( Michigan) and later as a banker ( bank clerk ) in Albany, where he studied theology. After his ordination in 1848, he took his first parish in Poughkeepsie. It was followed by other parishes. Smith spent three years in Cleveland (Ohio ), 1855-1860 in Buffalo (New York) and then 1860-1866 in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). During the Civil War he served in 1862 in Virginia with the United States Christian Commission ( USCC ). Four years after the end of the war he was chaplain in the 47th Regiment of the National Guard of New York. He also took 1866-1880 true his ministerial duties in Brooklyn.

In the congressional elections of 1880, Smith was as an independent candidate in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Simeon B. Chittenden on March 4, 1881. He retired after March 3, 1883 from the Congress.

After he had taken his parish in Brooklyn again, President Arthur appointed him Commissioner, who was the Pacific Railroad inspect. Smith died on December 7, 1886 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.