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James Smith (Pennsylvania politician)

American Founding Father and politician

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American Founding Father and politician

Field	Value
name	James Smith
image	James Smith (1700s).png
birth_date	1719 (?)
birth_place	Ireland
death_date	July 11, 1806 (aged 87 ?)
death_place	York, Pennsylvania, U.S.
resting_place	First Presbyterian Churchyard,
York
known_for	signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
signature	James Smith signature.png

York James Smith (September 17, 1719 – July 11, 1806), a Founding Father of the United States, was an Irish-American lawyer and a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.

He was born in Ireland; his family immigrated to Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1729. He studied law at the office of his brother George and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, initially practicing near Shippensburg and later near York. He became captain of the militia there. He was appointed to the provincial convention in Philadelphia in 1775, to the state constitutional convention in 1776, and was elected to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Declaration of Independence. He was reelected to Congress in 1785 but declined to attend because of his advanced age.

Smith died on July 11, 1806, and is buried in York, Pennsylvania, First Presbyterian Churchyard. The University of Delaware has a dormitory on its North Campus bearing his name.

References

Lawyers and Leaders: The Role of Lawyers in the Development of York County, Pennsylvania, 2005, , York County Bar Association by Georg R. Sheets

References

(1888). "Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography: Vol V. Pickering–Sumter". D. Appleton and Company.
"Smith, James". Pennsylvania State University.
"Smith, James, (1713–1806)".
(1857). "Biographical Sketches of Signers of the American Declaration of Independence". Derby & Jackson.

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