Smith, Delazon
journalist, United States senator, was born Oct. 5, 1816, in New Berlin, N. Y. He studied law, became a writer for the press, and was associated with the Rochester True Jeffersonian and the Western Empire of Dayton, Ohio.
In 1846 he removed to Iowa territory, where he remained until 1852, when he moved to Oregon territory.
In 1854 he was elected to the assembly of Oregon, and was re-elected in 1855 and 1856. In 1857 he was a member of the convention which framed a state constitution, and in 1858 was chosen one of the senators in congress for the prospective state, and took his seat as such in 1859.
He was also the editor of the Oregon Democrat. He died Nov. 17, 1860, in Portland, Ore.