J. Hyatt Smith

J. Hyatt Smith

John Hyatt Smith (born April 10, 1824 in Saratoga , New York , † December 7, 1886 in Brooklyn , New York) was an American clergyman and politician . Between 1881 and 1883 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hyatt Smith was tutored by his father. He then worked for a time as a clerk in Detroit ( Michigan ), and later as a banker ( bank clerk ) in Albany , where he Theology studied. After his ordination in 1848, he took up his first parish in Poughkeepsie . Other parish offices followed. Smith spent three years in Cleveland ( Ohio ), 1855 to 1860 in Buffalo (New York) and then from 1860 to 1866 in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ). During the Civil War , he served with the United States Christian Commission (USCC) in Virginia in 1862 . Four years after the end of the war, he was a chaplain in the 47th  Regiment of the New York National Guard . He also performed his ministerial duties in Brooklyn between 1866 and 1880.

In the congressional election of 1880 Smith was elected as an independent candidate in the third constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Simeon B. Chittenden on March 4, 1881 . He retired from the after March 3, 1883 Congress of.

After resuming his ministry in Brooklyn, President Arthur named him a commissioner to inspect the Pacific Railroad . Smith died in Brooklyn on December 7, 1886 and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• J. Hyatt Smith in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• J. Hyatt Smith in the database of Find a Grave (English)