SMITH, Samuel (1752-1839)
Jacksonian of Maryland 
0th congressional district
Served in Senate 1803-1815 , 1821-1833
Served in House 1793-1803 , 1815-1822
Biography
A Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Carlisle, Pa., July 27, 1752; moved with his family to Baltimore, Md., in 1759; attended a private academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served in the Revolutionary War, as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel; engaged in the shipping business; member of the Maryland house of delegates, 1790-1792; at the time of the threatened war with France, the Quasi-War, in 1794, appointed brigadier general of militia and commanded Maryland's quota during the Whiskey Rebellion; served in the War of 1812, major general of militia in the defense of Baltimore; elected to the Third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1803); did not seek renomination in 1802, having become a candidate for Senator; chair Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (Fifth through Seventh Congresses); elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate in 1802; reelected in 1808 and served from March 4, 1803, to March 3, 1815; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Ninth and Tenth Congresses; elected to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nicholas R. Moore; reelected to the Fifteenth and two succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on December 17, 1822 (January 31, 1816-December 17, 1822); chair, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Fourteenth Congress); chair, Committee on Ways and Means (Fifteenth through Seventeenth Congresses); elected in 1822 as a Democratic Republican (later Crawford Republican and Jacksonian) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Pinkney; reelected in 1826 and served from December 17, 1822, to March 3, 1833; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses; chair, Committee on Finance (Eighteenth through Twenty-second Congresses); mayor of Baltimore, Md., 1835-1838; retired from public life; died on April 22, 1839, in Baltimore, Md.; interment in the Old Westminster Burying Ground.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
