Smith, Caleb Blood
congressman, cabinet officer, was born April 16, 1808, in Boston, Mass. In 1832 he established and edited a whig journal called the Indiana Sentinel. In 1833 he was a member of the legislature; and also in 1834-36. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1843 to 1849; and was a presidential elector in 1840 and 1856. After leaving congress in 1849 he was appointed one of the members of the board for investigating the claims of American citizens against Mexico; and subsequently practiced his profession in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed secretary of the interior department. He was a member of the peace congress held in Washington in 1861; and in 1862 was appointed judge of the United States district court for the district of Indiana. He died Jan. 8, 1864, in Indianapolis, Ind.