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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Smith, John Hyatt
Smith, John Hyatt, a Representative from New York; born in Saratoga, N.Y., April 10, 1824; taught by his father; employed for a time as a clerk in Detroit, Mich., and later as a bank clerk in Albany, N.Y., and while in the latter position studied theology; after ordination his first pastorate was in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1848; officiated in Cleveland, Ohio, for three years, in Buffalo, N.Y., 1855-1860, and in Philadelphia, Pa., 1860-1866; during the Civil War served in Virginia with the United States Christian Commission in 1862; chaplain of the Forty-seventh Regiment, National Guard of New York, in 1869; continued his ministerial duties in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1866-1880; elected as an Independent Republican and Democratic candidate to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); appointed by President Arthur a commissioner to inspect the Pacific Railroad, after which he resumed a pastorate in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he died December 7, 1886; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Chicago:
U.S. Congress, "Smith, John Hyatt," 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.1830 Original Sources, accessed July 12, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=V68QTPJH2UXU8QE.
MLA:
U.S. Congress. "Smith, John Hyatt." 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.1830, Original Sources. 12 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=V68QTPJH2UXU8QE.
Harvard:
U.S. Congress, 'Smith, John Hyatt' 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.1830. Original Sources, retrieved 12 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=V68QTPJH2UXU8QE.
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