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| Affiliation | Whig |
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| Name | James S. Smith |
| Address | Orange County
Chapel Hill, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 15, 1790
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| Died | December 07, 1852
(62 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | SMITH, James Strudwick, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Hillsboro, Orange County, N.C., October 15, 1790; attended a private school near Hillsboro and Hillsboro Academy; was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1818, and practiced medicine near Hillsboro and later near Chapel Hill, Orange County
U.S. Representative (DR-NC) 1817-21; chairman, Committee on Accounts (Sixteenth Congress)
Resumed the practice of medicine; member of the State house of commons in 1821 and 1822
Candidate for Presidential Elector (NR-NC) 1828, supporting Pres. John Q. Adams and Richard Rush
Delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1835
Candidate for Presidential Elector (W-NC) 1836, supporting Hugh L. White and John Tyler.
Presidential Elector (W-NC) 1840; cast the Eighth Electoral District's electoral vote for William H. Harrison and John Tyler.
Died near Chapel Hill, N.C., on 12/7/1852 [BDAC says "in August 1859"]; interment in a private cemetery on his farm. Obituary in the Raleigh Standard 12/22/1852; Raleigh Register, 12/22/1852; Salisbury Carolina Watchman 12/23/1852.
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