Ballard Smith

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Ballard Smith was a soldier and congressman from Virginia.

Smith was born in Hanover County, Virginia. In the Revolutionary War, he rose to the now-defunct rank of captain lieutenant in the 1st Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. In the 1790s, he rose to the rank of major in the United States Army.

He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1810 to 1813 and was later elected a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1814, serving from 1815 to 1821. Afterwards, Smith returned to the House of Delegates in 1824, serving again until 1826 and again in 1836 and 1837.

[edit] References

• Ballard Smith at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Service record from Francis B. Heitman's Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army. Heitman says that the Lieutenant Ballard Smith who served in the Revolution died on 20 March 1794, i.e. before the subject of this article served in Congress. Heitman is in error or these are two different men.

Preceded by Hugh Caperton

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 7th congressional district March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1821

Succeeded by William Smith