Samuel E. Smith

Samuel Emerson Smith ( born March 12, 1788 in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; † March 3, 1860 in Wiscasset, Maine ) was an American politician ( Democratic- Republican) and 1831-1834 Governor of Maine.

Early years

The young Samuel Smith attended Groton Academy, and then to 1808, Harvard University. After a successful law school, he was admitted to the bar in 1812, after which he began practicing in Wiscasset, Maine. Smith's political career began in 1819 as a deputy in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts to the State of Maine at that time still belonged. After Maine was then created in 1820 as a separate State, he was from 1820 to 1821 deputy in the State House of Representatives. Between 1822 and 1830 Smith judge was in Maine at the Supreme Court. In 1830 he was elected governor of his country.

Governor of Maine

Smith took up his new post on January 5, 1831. After he was re-elected in each of the years 1831 and 1832, he could remain in office until January 1, 1834. During his reign the capital of Maine from Portland was moved to Augusta. The border conflict in the north- east of the country with Canada worsened again in these years and was settled by the Webster - Ashburton Treaty until the year 1842. Between 1835 and 1837 he worked as a judge again. At the same time he worked on a committee to revise the laws of the State with. Then he retired to his estate in Wiscasset, where he verbrachtete the rest of his life. He is also passed in 1860. Samuel Smith was married to Louisa Sophia Fuller, with whom he had nine children.

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