Hon. John Ambler Smith

U.S. Representative John Ambler Smith

U.S. Congressman. He graduated from the law department of the Richmond College, was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced the practice of law in Richmond, Virginia. He was appointed commissioner in chancery of the courts of Richmond in 1868, served as Commonwealth attorney of Charles City and New Kent Counties and as a member of the Virginia State Senate in 1869. In 1873, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress, serving until 1875. An unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination, he resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C. and was a member of the immigration commission to London, England, until his death at age 44.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ambler_Smith
• https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000568
• https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.00224/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13170250/john-ambler-smith