Sylvester C. Smith

Sylvester C. Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 8th district
In office March 4, 1905 – January 26, 1913
Preceded by	Milton J. Daniels
Succeeded by	Everis A. Hayes
Member of the California Senate from the 34th district
In office January 7, 1895 – January 5, 1903
Preceded by	George G. Goucher
Succeeded by	William H. Savage
Personal details
Born	(1858-08-26)August 26, 1858 Mount Pleasant, Iowa, U.S.
Died	January 26, 1913(1913-01-26) (aged 54) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Political party	Republican

Sylvester Clark Smith (August 26, 1858 – January 26, 1913) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1905 to 1913.

Biography

Born near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Smith attended the district schools and Howe's Academy at Mount Pleasant. He taught school in Winfield, Iowa. He moved to California in 1879 and engaged in agricultural pursuits, and taught school in Colusa and Kern Counties in 1883.

Smith studied law, and was He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Bakersfield, California.

He also edited the Kern County Echo.

He served as member of the State senate 1894–1902. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

Congress

Smith was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1905, until his death in Los Angeles, California, January 26, 1913.

He was interred in Union Cemetery.

See also

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

References

• United States Congress. "Sylvester C. Smith (id: S000614)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Sylvester C. Smith, late a representative from California, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1914

External links

• Join California Sylvester C. Smith

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