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SMITH, Israel, senator, born in Suffield, Connecticut, 4 April, 1759; died in Rutland, Vermont, 2 December, 1810. He was graduated at Yale in 1781, and settled as a lawyer in Rupert, Vermont, but removed afterward to Rutland. He was boundary commissioner in 1789, and took an active part in the admission of Vermont into the Union. He was a delegate to the convention that adopted the Federal constitution in 1791, a member of congress from that year till 1797, having been chosen as a Democrat, and was United States senator from 1803 till 1807, when he resigned to become governor of Vermont. In 1809 he was a presidential elector.
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