John Smith
U.S. Congressperson
1750 – 1836
Who was John Smith?
John Smith was a United States Representative from Virginia; born at Shooter's Hill, near Locust Hill, Middlesex County, Virginia, May 7, 1750 to parents Captain John Smith and Mary Jaquelin; moved to Frederick County, Va., in 1773 and engaged in planting at Hackwood, near Winchester; commissioned a justice of the peace in 1773; served in Dunmore's War with the Indians in 1774, the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812; member of the House of Delegates 1779–1783; served in the state Senate 1791–1794; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses; resumed agricultural pursuits; died at Rockville, near Middletown, Frederick County, Va., on March 5, 1836; interment in the family burying ground at Hackwood, near Winchester, Va.; reinterred in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va., in 1890.
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- Born
- May 7, 1750
Middlesex County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 5, 1836
Rockville
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on July 23, 2013
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