Name Samuel Smith Role Journalist | Died November 1, 1845 | |
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Samuel Harrison Smith (27 January 1772 – 1 November 1845) was an American journalist and newspaper publisher. He founded the National Intelligencer at Washington in 1800.
Joseph Gales became his assistant in 1807 and sole proprietor in 1810.
He was a friend, confidant and counselor to president Thomas Jefferson. In February 1801 Smith published Jefferson's Manual, "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States."
In 1813 Smith was appointed Commissioner of the Revenue for the United States Treasury Department by President Madison, and on September 30, 1814, Secretary of the Treasury, ad interim.
During the period 1809-19 he was president of the Bank of Washington and then president of the Washington branch of the Bank of the United States until the position was abolished in 1835.
He was married to the author Margaret Bayard Smith, first cousin to James A. Bayard who was highly influential in the 1800 presidential election.