William Smith (politician, 1728)

William Smith (born April 12, 1728 in Lancaster County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  March 27, 1814 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1789 and 1791 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Smith grew up during the British colonial era. From 1761 he lived in Baltimore. In the early 1770s he joined the revolutionary movement. In 1775 he was a member of the Committee on Observation ; In 1777 he was a member of the assembly establishing a naval committee. In the same year he became a delegate to the Continental Congress . At the time, Smith was a retailer. At the end of the 1780s he was in opposition to the future President George Washington ( anti-administration group ).

In the congressional elections of 1789 Smith was elected in the fourth constituency of Maryland in the US House of Representatives, which was then still in New York , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. By March 3, 1791 he was able to complete the first legislative period in Congress . Between July and September 1791 Smith was the first auditor ( auditor ) of the Federal Ministry of Finance. In 1801 he became a member of the Maryland Senate . He died in Baltimore on March 27, 1814.

Web links

• William Smith in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Smith in the database of Find a Grave (English)