John Speed ​​Smith

John Speed ​​Smith

John Speed ​​Smith (born July 1, 1792 in Nicholasville , Kentucky , †  June 6, 1854 in Richmond , Kentucky) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Smith first attended a private school. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1812, he began to practice in Richmond in this profession. During the British-American War of 1812 he was an officer in the United States Army . He made it to the colonel on the staff of General William Henry Harrison . He later embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1819 he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives.

After the resignation of Congressman George Robertson , Smith was elected in the by-election in the seventh constituency of Kentucky as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on August 6, 1821. Since he did not run again in the regular congressional elections of 1822, he was only able to end the current legislative period of his predecessor in congress until March 3, 1823 .

Between 1827 and 1845, Smith was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives on several occasions. In 1827 he was its president. From 1828 to 1832 he served as a federal attorney for the Kentucky District, succeeding John J. Crittenden . Smith was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1846 to 1850 . He died on June 6, 1854 in Richmond, where he was also buried.

Web links

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