John Speed Smith

John Speed ​​Smith ( * July 1, 1792 in Nicholasville, Kentucky, † June 6, 1854 in Richmond, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Smith first attended a private school. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1812 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in Richmond in this profession. During the British - American War of 1812 he was an officer in the United States Army. He brought it up to colonel on the staff of General William Henry Harrison. Later he hit as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In 1819 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

Following the resignation of Mr George Robertson Smith was at the by-election in the seventh constituency of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on August 6, 1821. Since he resigned at the regular congressional elections of 1822 on a bid again, he could only finish the opened term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1823.

Between 1827 and 1845 Smith sat several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In 1827 he was its president. From 1828 to 1832 he served as United States Attorney for the District of Kentucky. In the years 1846 to 1850 Smith was a member of the Senate from Kentucky. He died on June 6, 1854 in Richmond, where he was also buried.

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