1817.105: Address of Alexander Smyth to Freeholders of Congressional District 6 (1).
Published: 1817
Full Title: [Address of Alexander Smyth to Freeholders of Congressional District 6]
Author: Smyth, Alexander (1765-1830).
Place Issued: Richmond
Issuing Press: Uncertain
Description: Unrecorded
Notes
No copy known extant; existence of this title indicated by Postscript of Alexander Smyth to Freeholders of Congressional District 6 (1817.106), dated Richmond, February 16, 1817, near end of Assembly session that met from November 11, 1816, to February 22, 1817; previously Smyth announced his intention to seek an open congressional seat created by the retirement of Federalist congressman Daniel Sheffey (1770-1830) in a letter to his current Wythe County constituents (1816.128); in these two ensuing letters, he addressed voters in the district he hoped to represent in Congress, which included Wythe; Smyth defeated Federalist Benjamin Estill (1780-1853) in that subsequent election by a 2-1 margin and then represented the 6th Virginia Congressional District until 1825, then again from 1827 until his death.