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Name
  
Sylvester Smith

Died
  
January 26, 1913


Resigned
  
January 26, 1913

Role
  
Former U.S. Representative

Previous office
  
Representative (CA 8th District) 1905–1913

Member of congress start date
  
March 4, 1905

Sylvester Clark Smith (August 26, 1858 – January 26, 1913) was a U.S. Representative from California.

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. He taught school in Colusa and Kern Counties in 1883. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Bakersfield, California. Edited the Kern County Echo. He resumed the practice of law. He served as member of the State senate 1894-1902. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth 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.

References

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