Delazon Smith [SEP] place of death
constitutional convention of that prepared the first constitution in preparation for statehood. Upon Oregon's admission to the Union as the 33rd state, Smith was elected to the Senate, serving from February 14 to March 4, 1859. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election.
Less than two years after leaving the Senate, Delazon Smith died in Portland on November 19, 1860 at the age of 44 years. His interment was at Albany, Oregon in the Masonic Cemetery.
Works authored.
- "A History
Delazon Smith
Delazon Smith (October 5, 1816November 19, 1860) was a Democratic Party politician who briefly represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. Senate in 1859. He served for less than one month (February 14 to March 4), making his term among the shortest on record in the Senate. Smith was also a newspaper editor in New York and Ohio, and served in the Oregon Territory's legislature.
Early life.
Smith was born in New Berlin, New York on October 5, 1816