Ephraim K. Smart
Ephraim Knight Smart ( born September 3, 1813 in Prospect, Waldo County, Massachusetts, † September 29, 1872 in Camden, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849, and again from 1851 to 1853, he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Ephraim Smart was in 1813 in a former Prospect place, which is a district of Searsport today, was born. At that time this place was still part of Massachusetts; it is part of that time founded the state of Maine since 1820. Smart attended the public schools of his home. In addition, he also received private lessons. He then attended the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Readfield. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1838 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Camden. In the same year he was also postmaster in this city.
Smart was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1841 and 1842 he sat in the Senate of Maine. In 1842 he was military advisor to Governor John Fairfield. From 1843 to 1844 Smart worked for a short time in Missouri as a lawyer, he returned to Maine. In 1845 he was again postmaster in Camden.
In 1846 he was in the fifth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Cullen Sawtelle on March 4, 1847. Until March 3, 1849, he was initially able to complete only one term in Congress. Then his mandate fell back to Sawtelle. At the time of the Mexican -American War with large area gains of the United States ended in the west and southwest of the continent. For the year 1850 elections Ephraim Smart was able to regain his seat in Congress and spend another term in Congress between March 4, 1851, March 3, 1853. This was determined by the heated debate over slavery.
After the end of his time in the House Smart headed 1853-1858, the customs administration in Belfast ( Maine). He also went into the newspaper business. In 1854 he founded the newspaper " Maine Free Press ," which he edited for three years as editor in chief. In 1858 Smart was also a member of the House of Representatives from Maine. In 1860, he ran unsuccessfully for the governorship. Instead, he was in 1862 again elected to the State Senate. Since 1869 he has been resident in Biddeford. There he founded the newspaper " Maine Democrat ".