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Senate Committee Room

Samuel Smith (1752-1839)

Artist: Adrian Lamb, after Gilbert Stuart, 1975
Medium: Oil on canvas
MSA SC 1545-1031

Samuel Smith

Military service:
Captain, First Maryland Regiment, 1776
Lt. Colonel, Fourth Maryland Regiment, 1776-1779
Major General, Third Division, Maryland Militia, 1795-1814

Positions held:
House of Delegates, Baltimore City, 1790-1792; U.S. House of Representatives, 1793-1803, 1816-1822; U.S. Senator, 1803-1815, 1821-1833; Mayor of Baltimore, 1835-1838

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