George William Smith (politician)

George William Smith ( * 1762 in Bathurst, Essex County, Virginia; † December 26, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia ) was an American politician and in 1811, Governor of Virginia.

Career

The exact date of birth of George Smith is unknown. The sources go but from 1762 as a year of his birth. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson and was 1790-1808 times with interruptions deputy in the House of Representatives from Virginia. After that, he was a member and President of the Executive Council, a forerunner of the Senate of Virginia. In this capacity, he realized according to the state constitution after the resignation of Governor John Tyler, who had been appointed to a federal judgeship, whose term of office to. He had only the time between the 15 and 19 January 1811 bridge until the newly elected Governor James Monroe could take office.

After Monroe was appointed by President James Madison as the new Secretary of State, he entered on April 3, 1811 Governor back; Smith then had to again take on this position and to terminate Monroe's tenure, which would have extended to January 1812. In December 1811, he then won the gubernatorial elections for its own term of office, which would have run from January 1812 to January 1813. But that did not, because on December 26, 1811 just three weeks after his election, in a theater fire in Richmond was killed he. George Smith was married twice and had eight children.