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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam Ephraim SMITH
(1829-1890)
SMITH, William Ephraim, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Augusta, Richmond County, Ga.,
March 14, 1829; pursued an academic course; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1846, under a special act of the
legislature, and practiced in Albany, Ga.; also a planter; ordinary
of Dougherty County, Ga., in 1853; solicitor general of the
southwest circuit 1858-1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the
Confederate Army as a first lieutenant in the Fourth Georgia
Volunteer Infantry; elected captain in April 1862; elected to the
house of representatives of the Second Confederate Congress in
1863; declined the office of circuit judge of Georgia in 1874;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and
Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1881); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1880; resumed the practice of law;
president of the Democratic State convention in 1886; served in the
State senate 1886-1888; died in Albany, Dougherty County, Ga.,
March 11, 1890; interment in Oakview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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