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Caleb Blood Smith (April 16, 1808 – January 7, 1864) was a United States Representative from Indiana, the 6th United States Secretary of the Interior and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana.
Caleb Blood Smith. Congressman and U.S. Secretary of Interior. (Apr. 16, 1808-Jan. 7, 1864). Caleb Blood Smith was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a merchant who moved his family to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1814.
Bailey: Caleb Blood Smith 217 in the interior, but was worth forty cents on the Ohio river, and sixty cents on the Atlantic coast. The flatboat trade to New Orleans had helped somewhat in the Southern counties, but the central and northern section was still inaccessible. The National Road from the East had been surveyed
Caleb Blood Smith was born in 1808 in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Cincinnati College and Miami University, studied law, and began to practice in Indiana. By 1831, Smith was involved in politics, copublishing a Whig newspaper, and, from 1833 to 1841, serving three terms in the Indiana state house of representatives.
Caleb Blood Smith (16 de abril de 1808 - 7 de enero de 1864) fue un representante de los Estados Unidos por Indiana, el sexto secretario del Interior de los Estados Unidos y un juez de distrito de los Estados Unidos. Tribunal de Distrito para el Distrito de Indiana. Educación y carrera. Caleb Blood Smith.
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress - Retro Member details. Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. SMITH, Caleb Blood (1808-1864)
SMITH Caleb Blood , a Representative from Indiana; born in Boston, Mass., April 16, 1808; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1814; attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1825-1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Connersville, Fayette County, Ind.
