Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Smith, Caleb Blood

Smith, Caleb Blood, a Representative from Indiana; born in Boston, Mass., April 16, 1808; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1814; attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1825-1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Connersville, Fayette County, Ind.; founded and edited the Indiana Sentinel in 1832; member of the State house of representatives 1833-1837, 1840, and 1841, and served as speaker in 1836; presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Harrison and Tyler in 1840; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); appointed by President Zachary Taylor, at the close of his term, a member of the board to investigate claims of American citizens against Mexico; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and practiced his profession; presidential elector on the Republican ticket of Fremont and Dayton in 1856; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; appointed Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Lincoln and served from March 5, 1861, to January 1, 1863, when he resigned to become judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana, in which capacity he served until his death in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., January 7, 1864; interment in the City Cemetery, Connersville, Ind.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Smith, Caleb Blood," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1824 Original Sources, accessed March 25, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49FL8D5X16ZUKGS.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Smith, Caleb Blood." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1824, Original Sources. 25 Mar. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49FL8D5X16ZUKGS.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Smith, Caleb Blood' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1824. Original Sources, retrieved 25 March 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49FL8D5X16ZUKGS.