Richard Moore Smith (October 1, 1828 – May 24, 1888) was an American from Mineral Point,

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who in 1856 spent a one-year term as a Democratic member of the

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from

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. Smith was born in Pennsylvania, the son of

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, and moved with his parents to Mineral Point as a child in 1837. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Railways. He was succeeded by Republican

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, also of Mineral Point. Smith moved to

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in 1868, where he managed the savings department at Bull's Bank. He died in Quincy in 1888 and was buried in Mineral Point.

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