Albert Smith (Maine)

Albert Smith ( born January 3, 1793 in Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † May 29, 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Albert Smith attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1813, the Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in 1817 in Portland, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts to practice in his new profession. After the founding of Maine in connection with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Smith was elected to the House of Representatives of the new State. In the further course of the 1820s, Smith joined the later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the years 1830 to 1838 Albert Smith was U.S. Marshal for the District of Maine. In 1838 he was second in the electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1839, the successor of Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith. Since he lost to William P. Fessenden of the Whig Party in the elections of 1840, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1841. This period was overshadowed by the political struggles between President Martin Van Buren and the Democratic Party with the Whigs. The highlight was the presidential election of 1840, when Democratic President Van Buren as well as Albert Smith was voted out. From this perspective was the removal of a Smith in the national trend, which saw the Whigs in the ascendant.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Albert Smith withdrew from politics. Until his death in 1867 he held no higher public office.