Nathaniel Smith was a Representative to the United States Congress from Connecticut. He was born in Woodbury, Connecticut on January 6, 1762. He was the brother of Nathan Smith and uncle of Truman Smith.
Smith attended the common schools. He became engaged in agricultural pursuits and was also a cattle dealer. Later he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1787. He commenced the practice of his profession in his hometown Woodbury.
In 1789 he became a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1799).
Smith declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1798, but served in the Connecticut Senate from 1800 to 1805. In 1806 he became judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut. He kept this position for thirteen years. He also was a delegate to the Hartford Convention of 1814-15.
Nathaniel Smith died in Woodbury on March 9, 1822. He is interred in the Episcopal Church Cemetery.
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| Name | Smith, Nathaniel |
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| Short description | American politician |
| Date of birth | 1762 |
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| Date of death | 1822 |
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Famous quotes containing the words nathaniel and/or smith:
“There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,—why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,—that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”
—Alexander Smith (1830–1867)