John E. Smith (August 4, 1843 Nelson, Madison County, New York – 1907) was an American politician from

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Life

Smith attended the district schools and

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, graduated from Albany Law School in 1867, was admitted to the bar the same year, and practiced in Morrisville. Smith was district attorney of Madison County from 1878 to 1880, and in 1882; a member of the

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(23rd D.) in

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; and assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York from July 1889 to July 1891. On October 9, 1891, Smith was nominated on the 937th ballot by the Republican 23rd senatorial district convention, defeating the incumbent Titus Sheard, and was again a member of the State Senate in

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. In March 1899, Smith was appointed as judge of Madison County, to fill a vacancy. Smith is buried in the Morrisville Rural Cemetery.

Sources

''The New York Red Book''
compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403f)
''New York State Legislative Souvenir for 1893 with Portraits of the Members of Both Houses''
by Henry P. Phelps (pg. 19)
''PLATT CARRIES HIS POINT''
in NYT on October 10, 1891

transcribed from ''Our County and Its People: a Descriptive and Biographical Record of Madison County, New York'' by (1899)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John E 1843 births 1907 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators People from Madison County, New York County district attorneys in New York (state) Albany Law School alumni New York (state) state court judges People from Morrisville, New York 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American judges