Abraham Herr Smith
U.S. Congressperson
1815 – 1894
Who was Abraham Herr Smith?
Abraham Herr Smith was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
A. Herr Smith was born near Millersville, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He attended Professor Beck’s Academy at Lititz, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1840. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1843 and 1844, and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1845.
Smith was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Mileage during the Forty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Lancaster in 1894. Interment in Woodward Hill Cemetery.
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- Born
- Mar 7, 1815
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Dickinson College
- Lived in
- Lancaster
- Died
- Feb 16, 1894
Lancaster - Resting place
- Woodward Hill Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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