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E. L. Smith

Union

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-05-1865 Union AD-15 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/29956729/ezra-leonard-smith
 

Candidate Biography:

Ezra Leonard Smith
Born: September 17, 1837 in Craftsbury, Vermont
Married: Georgiana Slocum (m. 1861, d. 1911)
Children: Jessie, Laura and Irving M.
Died: January 22, 1921 in Hood River, Oregon

1867-186?: Secretary (and Acting Governor), Washington Territory
1889: Speaker, Oregon House of Representatives [State Legislature]

  • Mr. Smith was perhaps the last Pacific Coast survivor who attended the Republican convention at Chicago in 1862, when Abraham Lincoln received his first nomination for the presidency. [Source: FindAGrave]