Albert Smith (politician, 1793)

Albert Smith (born January 3, 1793 in Hanover , Plymouth County , Massachusetts , † May 29, 1867 in Boston , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Smith attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1813 Brown University in Providence ( Rhode Island ). After a subsequent law degree and his license to practice law, he began in 1817 in Portland , which was then still part of Massachusetts, to practice in his new profession. After Maine was founded in connection with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Smith was elected to the new state's House of Representatives. In the further course of the 1820s Smith joined the later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

From 1830 to 1838, Albert Smith was US Marshal for the Maine County. In 1838 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Second Constituency of Maine . There he took over from Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith on March 4, 1839 . Since he lost to William P. Fessenden of the Whig Party in the 1840 elections , he was only able to serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1841 . This time was overshadowed by the political clashes between President Martin Van Buren and his Democratic Party with the Whigs. The high point was the presidential election of 1840, when Democratic President Van Buren was voted out of office, as was Albert Smith. In that sense, Smith's election was a federal trend that saw the Whigs on the up.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Albert Smith withdrew from politics. Until his death in 1867 he did not hold any higher public office.

Web links

• Albert Smith in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Albert Smith in the database of Find a Grave (English)