James Strudwick Smith

{{short description|American politician}}

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James Strudwick Smith (September 8, 1787{{spnd}}December 7, 1852) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Hillsboro, North Carolina, September 8, 1787; attended a private school near Hillsboro and Hillsboro Academy; was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and practiced medicine near Hillsboro and later near Chapel Hill, North Carolina; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Sixteenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of medicine; member of the State house of commons in 1821 and 1822; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1835; died near Chapel Hill, N.C., December 7, 1852; interment in a private cemetery on his farm.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8lAs_QeKkkC&dq=James+Strudwick+Smith&pg=PA1538 |title=Biographical Directory of the American Congress. 1774-1927: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Sixty-ninth Congress, March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1927, Inclusive |last2= |first2= |date=1928 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}