Samuel William Smith

Samuel William Smith ( born August 23, 1852 in Independence, Oakland County, Michigan, † June 19, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1915 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

Samuel Smith attended public schools in Clarkston and Detroit. Since 1869, he himself was in the teaching profession as a teacher operates. In 1875, he led the schools in Waterford and neighboring Waterford Township. After studying law at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1878 admitted to the bar he began in Pontiac to work in his new profession. Between 1880 and 1884, Smith was prosecutor in Oakland County.

Politically, Smith was a member of the Republican Party. From 1885 to 1887, he was a member of the Senate of Michigan. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of David D. Aitken on 4 March 1897. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1915 nine legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Philippines. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress discussed and approved. From 1907 to 1911 Samuel Smith chaired the Committee for management of the Federal District District of Columbia.

In 1914, Smith gave up another candidacy. He moved to Detroit, where he practiced as a lawyer in the following years. There he is on June 19, 1931 also died. Samuel Smith was married to Alida Electa Deland (1859-1949), with whom he had three children.