Samuel Smith was an Australian politician

Born in Ayrshire

Ayrshire

Ayrshire is a registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, United Kingdom, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine. The town of Troon on the coast has hosted the British Open Golf Championship twice in the...

, Scotland

Scotland

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, to Samuel Smith and Marion Hunter, he attended school at Kilwinning

Kilwinning

Kilwinning is a historic town in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is known as The Crossroads of Ayrshire. The 2001 Census recorded it as having a population of 15,908.-History:...

 and became a colliery lad at the age of eleven, becoming active in the Glasgow

Glasgow

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 Railway and Seaman's Union. In 1882 he arrived in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 and helped found the local Seamen's Union, of which he was assistant secretary in 1890 and secretary from 1891 to 1902. He was a Sydney City Councillor

City of Sydney

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 from 1900 to 1902. In 1898 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...

 as the member for Sydney-Pyrmont

Electoral district of Sydney-Pyrmont

Sydney-Pyrmont was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894, partly replacing the multi-member electorate of West Sydney and named after and including the Sydney suburb of Pyrmont. In 1904, it changed its name to Pyrmont and it...

, serving until 1902. Smith died at Lilyfield

Lilyfield, New South Wales

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in 1916.