Henry C. Smith

Henry C. Smith

Henry Cassorte Smith (born June 2, 1856 in Canandaigua , Ontario County , New York , †  December 7, 1911 in Adrian , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1857, Henry Smith and his father moved to a farm near Palmyra, Michigan, where he attended public schools. In 1878 he graduated from Adrian College . He then worked as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1880, he began to work in Adrian in his new profession. Smith also became the city's legal representative.

Politically, Smith was a member of the Republican Party . In 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Louis , where William McKinley was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1898 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded George Spalding on March 4, 1899 , whom he had defeated in his party's primary election. After re-election in 1900, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1903 .

Before the elections in 1902 , Smith failed in the Republican primary in turn to Charles E. Townsend . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to work as a lawyer. He died on December 7, 1911 in Adrian, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Henry C. Smith in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry C. Smith in the database of Find a Grave (English)