About Samuel Smith Harrison
Lived 1780 – 1853 (aged 72–73). Samuel Smith Harrison was an American politician and lawyer.
Samuel Smith Harrison (1780 – April 1853) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography Samuel Smith Harrison was born in Virginia in 1780. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced. He moved to Kittanning, Pennsylvania.
He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses. He resumed the practice of law and died in Kittanning in 1853. Interment in Old Kittanning Cemetery.
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American politician
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Samuel Smith Harrison was born in 1780 in Virginia.
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Samuel Smith Harrison died on 1 April 1853 in Kittanning.
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