Samuel A. Smith (1795May 15, 1861) was an American politician from

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who served as a Jacksonian member of the

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for

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from 1829 to 1833. Samuel A. Smith was born in Harrow, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned justice of the peace for the Rockhill-Milford district before he was twenty-one years of age. He served as register of wills for

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, from 1824 to 1829. He was the brigade inspector of militia for the Bucks and

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district. He resigned this position in 1832, and was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of

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and Samuel D. Ingham. He was reelected to the Twenty-second Congress. He was a member of the

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for the

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from 1841 to 1842. He was appointed associate judge of the courts of Bucks County by

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in 1844 and served until 1849. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in

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, and later in

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. He died in Point Pleasant in 1861. Interment in the Doylestown Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

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The Political Graveyard

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