Smedley Darlington

Smedley Darlington ( born December 24, 1827 in Pocopson, Chester County, Pennsylvania, † 24 July 1899, at West Chester, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Smedley Darlington was a second cousin of Congressman Edward Darlington (1795-1884), Isaac Darlington (1781-1839) and William Darlington ( 1782-1863 ). He attended the common schools and the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia. He then worked for several years at this school as a teacher. At the same time, he designed stenographic reports of all kinds for the morning news the newspapers of Philadelphia. In 1851 he founded a school in Ercildoun, which he ran for twelve years. In the years 1861 and 1862, he participated as a soldier of the state militia of Pennsylvania part in the civil war. He brought it up to the captain. Since 1864 Darlington lived in West Chester, where he worked in the banking industry and the stock market business. Politically he was first a member of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party. In 1872 he was a delegate part of their national convention in Cincinnati, on the Horace Greeley was nominated as a presidential candidate. Later he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Darlington was in the sixth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Bowen Everhart on March 4, 1887. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 two legislative sessions. In 1890 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Darlington took his previous activities in the banking sector as a stock broker on again. In June 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, when William McKinley was set up as a presidential candidate. Smedley Darlington died on June 24, 1899 in West Chester. Smedley Darlington Butler, his grandson (1881-1940) was a highly decorated Major General in the United States Marine Corps.