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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS #6776 - 6780 - SHERLEY, SIMMS, SMITH, SMITH, SOUTHGATE
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:02:06 -0600


Here are 5 more US Representatives and Senators serving from KY. I have no
connection and no further information. Sandi

6776 JEFFERSON CO - SHERLEY, JOSEPH SWAGAR - Sherley
6777 HARRISON CO - SIMMS, WILLIAM EMMETT - Simms, Davis
6778 MADISON CO - SMITH, GREEN CLAY - Smith, Johnson
6779 JESSAMINE CO - SMITH, JAMES SPEED - Smith, Harrison, Robertson
6780 CAMPBELL CO - SOUTHGATE, WILLIAM WRIGHT - Southgate

#6776: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774- Present.
Jefferson Co. SHERLEY, Joseph Swagar, 1871-1941. SHERLEY, Joseph Swagar, a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky.,
November 28, 1871; attended the public schools; was graduated from the
Louisville High School in 1889 and from the law department of the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1891; was admitted to the bar
the same year and commenced practice in Louisville, Ky.; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1903-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Sixty-fifth
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth
Congress; director of the division of finance of the United States Railroad
Administration from April 1919 to September 1920, when he resigned; resumed
the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died while on a visit in
Louisville, Ky., February 13, 1941; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery.

#6777: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 -
Present. Harrison Co. SIMMS, William Emmett, 1822-1898. SIMMS, William
Emmett, a Representative from Kentucky; born near Cynthiana, Harrison
County, Ky., January 2, 1822; attended the public schools, and was
graduated from the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington,
Ky., in 1846; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in
Paris, Bourbon County, Ky.; served as captain throughout the Mexican War;
member of the State house of representatives 1849-1851; was elected as a
Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh
Congress; on October 21, 1861, was appointed to the temporary rank of
colonel in the Confederate Army; appointed lieutenant colonel in the
Provisional Army of the Confederate States, December 24, 1861, and was
assigned to the First Battalion, Kentucky Cavalry; resigned February 17,
1862, having been chosen Senator from Kentucky to the Confederate States
Congress; member of the Senate of the First and Second Confederate
Congresses and also served in President Davis' Cabinet; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; died on his estate, "Mount Airy," near Paris,
Bourbon County, Ky., June 25, 1898; interment in Paris Cemetery.

#6778: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 -
Present. Madison Co. SMITH, Green Clay, 1826-1895. SMITH, Green Clay, (son
of John Speed Smith), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Richmond,
Madison County, Ky., July 4, 1826; pursued academic studies; served in the
Mexican War; commissioned second lieutenant in the First Regiment, Kentucky
Volunteer Infantry, June 9, 1846; was graduated from Transylvania
University, Lexington, Ky., in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1852 and commenced practice in Covington, Ky.; was school commissioner
1853-1857; member of the State house of representatives 1861-1863;
commissioned colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry,
April 4, 1862; brigadier general of Volunteers July 2, 1862; resigned
December 1, 1863; brevetted major general of Volunteers March 13, 1865;
elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, until his resignation in 1866;
chairman, Committee on Militia (Thirty-ninth Congress); appointed by
President Johnson as Governor of Montana Territory and served from July 13,
1866, until April 9, 1869, when he resigned; moved to Washington, D.C.,
where he was ordained to the Baptist ministry; was the candidate of the
National Prohibition Party in 1876 for President of the United States;
pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., from 1890
until his death, June 29, 1895; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

#6779: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 -
Present. Jessamine Co. SMITH, John Speed, 1792-1854. SMITH, John Speed,
(father of Green Clay Smith), a Representative from Kentucky; born near
Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky., July 1, 1792; attended a private
school in Mercer County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and
commenced practice in Richmond, Ky.; during the War of 1812 enlisted as a
private, and subsequently promoted to major; aide-de-camp to General
Harrison with the rank of colonel; member of the State house of
representatives in 1819; elected to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of George Robertson and served from
August 6, 1821, to March 3, 1823; was not a candidate for renomination in
1822; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1827, 1830,
1839, 1841, and 1845, and served as speaker in 1827; United States district
attorney for Kentucky 1828-1832; member of the State senate 1846-1850; died
in Richmond, Ky., June 6, 1854; interment in Richmond Cemetery.

#6780. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 -
Present. Campbell Co. SOUTHGATE, William Wright, 1800-1849. SOUTHGATE,
William Wright, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., November 27, 1800; educated in private schools and by private
tutors; was graduated from Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky.; moved to
Covington, Kenton County, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821
and commenced practice in Lexington, Ky.; prosecuting attorney 1825-1827;
member of the State house of representatives in 1827, 1832, and 1836;
elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3,
1839); resumed the practice of law; died in Covington, Ky., December 26,
1849; interment in Linden Grove Cemetery.


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