James Smith (delegate)

James Smith (delegate)

James Smith (September 17 1719 – July 11 1806), was a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.

He was born in Province of Ulster, Ireland; his family immigrated to Chester County, Pennsylvania, when he was about ten years old. He studied law at the office of his brother George and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, initially practicing near Shippensburg, and later near York. He became captain of the militia there. He was appointed to the provincial convention in Philadelphia in 1775, to the state constitutional convention in 1776, and was elected to the Continental Congress. He was reelected to Congress in 1785 but declined to attend because of his advanced age.

Smith is buried in York, Pennsylvania.

Smith was also an alumnus of the University of Delaware, which has a new dorm on its North Campus bearing his name.

External links

* [http://www.colonialhall.com/smith/smith.php Biography by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich, 1856]
*CongBio|S000558
*Find A Grave|id=2772


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • James Smith — may refer to: Sports figures * James Smith (boxer) (born 1953), American boxer, nicknamed Bonecrusher * James Smith (footballer born October 1985), English footballer playing for Stockport County * James Crosbie Smith (1894 ndash;1980), English… …   Wikipedia

  • James S. Havens — James Smith Havens was a Representative from New York who was born in Weedsport, Cayuga County, N.Y., May 28, 1859. He attended the public schools and Monroe Collegiate Institute, Elbridge, N.Y. and graduated from Yale College in 1884. He moved… …   Wikipedia

  • James Dahlman — James Charles Dahlman Mayor of Omaha In office 1906–1918 Preceded by Harry B. Zimman Succeeded by …   Wikipedia

  • James Milton Smith — (October 24, 1823ndash November 26, 1890) was a Confederate infantry colonel in the American Civil War, as well as a post war Governor of Georgia. He was noted as an ardent opponent of Radical Reconstruction.Smith was born in Twiggs County,… …   Wikipedia

  • James Searle — (c. 1730–August 7, 1797) was an American merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress.He was born in New York, the son of Catherine Pintard and John Searle, but on coming of age moved to Madeira, where he engaged in business with his brother …   Wikipedia

  • James Wolfenden — James Paine Wolfenden (July 25, 1889 April 8, 1949) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James Wolfenden was born in Cardington, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends Central School and Penn Charter Academy… …   Wikipedia

  • James W. Robinson (Texas and California) — James W. Robinson (c. 1791 ndash;October 27 1857) was a politician in what became the U.S. states of Texas and California.Early yearsJ. W. Robinson was born in what is now Hamilton County, Indiana in c. 1791. He was a lawyer and partnered with… …   Wikipedia

  • James W. Husted (speaker) — James William Husted (October 31, 1833 Bedford, Westchester County, New York September 25, 1892 Peekskill, Westchester County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. During his political career he became known as the Bald Eagle of… …   Wikipedia

  • James A. Parsons — (b. ca. 1868 Steuben County, New York March 4, 1945 Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.LifeHe was admitted to the bar of Nebraska in 1890, and moved back to New York in 1893. He then lived in Hornell, New York where he was at …   Wikipedia

  • James Osgood Andrew — (May 3, 1794 ndash; March 2, 1871) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1832. He was born in the township of Washington in Wilkes County, Georgia, a son of the Rev. John… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”