Samuel A. Smith

Samuel A. Smith (born 1795 in Harrow , Bucks County , Pennsylvania , †  May 15, 1861 in Point Pleasant , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Smith attended public schools in his home country. Before his 21st birthday, he became a Justice of the Peace in the Rockhill-Milford District of Pennsylvania. Between 1824 and 1829 he was an executor ( Register of Wills ) in Bucks County. He also served as the inspector of the local militia until 1832. In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 .

After the resignation of MP Samuel D. Ingham , Smith was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on October 13, 1829. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1833 . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

Samuel Smith served in the Pennsylvania Senate from 1841 to 1843 . Between 1844 and 1849 he was an associate judge in Bucks County. Otherwise he worked in Doylestown and later in Point Pleasant in commerce. He died in Point Pleasant on May 15, 1861.

Web links

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

predecessor	Office	successor
Samuel D. Ingham	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (8th constituency) with Peter Ihrie October 13, 1829 - March 3, 1833	Henry King