Arthur Smith was a U.S. Representative

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 from Virginia

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Born at "Windsor Castle," near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Isle of Wight County, Virginia

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, Smith attended an academy at Smithfield, Virginia

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, and graduated from the College of William and Mary

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, Williamsburg, Virginia

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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar

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 in 1808, and commenced practice in Smithfield, Virginia

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. He also engaged in agricultural

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 pursuits.

Smith served as colonel

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 in the War of 1812

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. He also served as member of the Virginia House of Delegates

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 from 1818-1820.

Smith was elected as a Democratic-Republican

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 to the Seventeenth Congress

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 and reelected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress

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 (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1824.

Smith resumed the practice of law, and again served as member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1836-1841. He died in Smithfield, Virginia

Smithfield, Virginia

Smithfield is a town in Isle of Wight County, in the South Hampton Roads subregion of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The population was 8,089 at the 2010 census....

, March 30, 1853. He was interred in the family burying ground on Windsor Castle estate, near Smithfield, Virginia

Smithfield, Virginia

Smithfield is a town in Isle of Wight County, in the South Hampton Roads subregion of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States. The population was 8,089 at the 2010 census....

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