SMITH, Oliver Hampton, senator, born on Smith's island, near Trenton, New Jersey, 23 October, 1794; died in Indianapolis, Indiana, 19 March, IS59. He received scanty early education, emigrated to Indiana in 1817, and was licensed to practise law in 1820. He was a member of the legislature in 1822, prosecuting attorney for the 3d judicial district of Indiana in 1824, and served in congress in 1827-'9, having been chosen as a Jackson Democrat. He then resumed the practice of his profession, in which he took high rank, was chosen United States senator as a Whig in 1836, served one term, and was chairman of the committee on public lands. He was defeated in the next senatorial canvass, settled in Indianapolis, largely engaged in railroad enterprises, and was the chief constructor of the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine road. He published "Recollections of a Congressional Life" (Cincinnati, 1834), and "Early Indiana Trials, Sketches, and Reminiscences" (1857).