Smith, Truman
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 27, 1791, in Rocksbury, Conn. He was elected to the state legislature in 1831, and re-elected in 1832 and 1834. In 1839 he was elected a representative in congress; and was re-elected in 1841. He presidential elector in 1844; in 1845 he was again elected a representative in congress, and was re-elected in was a 1847. In 1849 he took his seat in the United States senate for a full term of six years. He was appointed judge of the court of arbitration in New York, under the treaty of 1862 with Great Britain. He died May 3, 1884, in Stamford, Conn.