| 词条 | James Smith (delegate) |
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|name=James Smith |image=James Smith (1700s).png |caption= |birth_date=September 17, 1719 |birth_place=Ulster, Ireland |death_date=July 26, 1806 (aged 87) |death_place=York, Pennsylvania | resting_place=First Presbyterian Churchyard, York |known_for=signer of the United States Declaration of Independence |occupation= |signature=James Smith signature.png }} James Smith (September 17, 1719[1][2] – July 11, 1806), was an American lawyer and a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania. He was born in the province of Ulster, Ireland; his family immigrated to Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1729.[1] Smith attended the Philadelphia Academy.[3] He studied law at the office of his brother George and was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, initially practicing near Shippensburg, and later near York.[4] He became captain of the militia there. He was appointed to the provincial convention in Philadelphia in 1775, to the state constitutional convention in 1776, and was elected to the Continental Congress. He was reelected to Congress in 1785 but declined to attend because of his advanced age. Smith died on July 11, 1806 and is buried in York, Pennsylvania, First Presbyterian Churchyard.[5] The University of Delaware has a dorm on its North Campus bearing his name. References1. ^1 {{cite book|editor1-last=Wilson|editor1-first=James Grant|editor2-last=Fiske|editor2-first=John|title=Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography: Vol V. Pickering–Sumter|date=1888|publisher=D. Appleton and Company|page=1559|url=https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclopdv5wils|accessdate=August 26, 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Maszczak|first1=Steve|title=Smith, James|url=http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Smith__James.html|website=Literary and Cultural Heritage Map of Pennsylvania|publisher=Pennsylvania State University|accessdate=August 26, 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Smith, James, (1713–1806)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000558|website=Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress|accessdate=August 26, 2014}} 4. ^{{cite book|last1=Losser|first1=B.J.|title=Biographical Sketches of Signers of the American Declaration of Independence|date=1857|publisher=Derby & Jackson|location=New York|page=120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymU9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=signers+of+articles+of+confederation&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=4 July 2017}} 5. ^{{Find a Grave|2772}}
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