About Jabez M. Smith
Jabez M. Smith was an American politician.
Jabez M. Smith (died 1891) was a state legislator in Arkansas. He was a state senator in the Arkansas Senate from 1866 to 1867. He and his fellow senators were photographed and included in a composite by T. W. Bankes. He chaired the select committee.
He was a delegate at the 1861 secession convention, he voted to leave the Union, He served in the Eleventh Arkansas Infantry of the Confederate Army. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas has a photo of him. He was a delegate to the 1874 Arkansas Constitutional Convention. He became a circuit court judge in Saline County, Arkansas.
Relation to Dr. Jabez Melville Smith (born August 10, 1843) of Coffeeville and then Yalobusha County?
Married Elizabeth Gibbs April 27, 1871.
Correspondence
In 1866, Unionist J. M. Tibbets wrote to him as a senator, withdrawing as a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat.
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Jabez M. Smith died in 1891.
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