Thomas Smith (Pennsylvania congressman)

Thomas Smith ( * before 1782 in Pennsylvania; † January 29, 1846 in Darby, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Smith's birth and his exact place of birth are not known. Also about his childhood and youth and his education is not known. He lived in Tinicum in Delaware County. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In the years 1806 and 1807 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1814, Smith was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Anderson on March 4, 1815. Until March 3, 1817, he was able to complete a term in Congress. Since 1815, he lived in Darby. At the time of his death on 29 January 1846 he was justice of the peace there.