Biography

09/25/1805 - 10/18/1878

SMITH, George Washington, Sr., a Representative from Butler County; born, September 25, 1805 in Mercer County, Pa.; major, United States Army (Civil War); lawyer; elected as an Oppositionist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1835-1836 term; presidential appointee, Executive Committee of the Kansas Territory (1855-1856); elected, Governor of Kansas (not Sworn-In, vote repealed) (1857); elected as a Republican to the Kansas House of Representatives for Douglas County for the 1862 term; unseated by contest, January 24, 1862; reelected to the Kansas House for the 1866 and 1868 terms; elected, Speaker, Kansas House of Representatives (1868); elected, police judge, Lawrence, Ka. (1874-1875); died, on October 18, 1878 in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas; interred, Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas.