Henry C. Smith

Cassorte Henry Smith ( born June 2, 1856 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, † December 7, 1911 in Adrian, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1857, Henry Smith moved with his father to a farm near Palmyra, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. In 1878 he graduated from Adrian College. Subsequently, he was employed as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar he began in Adrian to work in his new profession. Smith was also legal representatives of this city.

Politically, Smith was a member of the Republican Party. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated on the William McKinley as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1898 he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded George Spalding took on 4 March 1899 that he had beaten in the primaries of his party. After a re-election in 1900 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 two legislative sessions.

Before the elections of 1902, Smith failed in the Republican Primary in turn to Charles E. Townsend. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. He died on 7 December 1911 in Adrian, where he was also buried.

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