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Sylvester Clark Smith (August 26, 1858 – January 26, 1913) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a
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from
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from 1905 to 1913.


Biography

Born near
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, Smith attended the district schools and Howe's Academy at Mount Pleasant. He taught school in
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. He moved to California in 1879 and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He taught school in Colusa and Kern Counties in 1883. He studied law. He was
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in 1885 and commenced practice in Bakersfield, California. Edited the Kern County Echo. He resumed the practice of law. He served as member of the State senate 1894–1902. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.


Congress

Smith was elected as a
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to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1905, until his death in
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, January 26, 1913. He was interred in Union Cemetery.


See also

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References


Sylvester C. Smith, late a representative from California, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1914


External links


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1858 births 1913 deaths People from Mount Pleasant, Iowa Republican Party California state senators Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California 19th-century American politicians 20th-century American politicians {{California-Representative-stub