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Robert Hardy Smith Jr.

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Born: March 21, 1813

Birthplace: Camden County, North Carolina

Father: Robert Hardy Smith Sr. 1788 – 1841

Mother: Elizabeth Gregory 1786 – 1856

1st​ Wife: Evelina Belmont Inge 1819 – 1843
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)​

Married: January 12, 1839

2nd​ Wife: Emily Caroline Inge 1824 – 1846
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)​

Married: November 25, 1845

3rd​ Wife: Helen Hord Herndon 1830 – 1887
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​

Married: April 9, 1850 in Greene County, Alabama

Children:

Richard Inge Smith 1841 – 1918​
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​
Robert Hardy Smith III 1851 – 1894​
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​
Gregory Little Smith 1853 – 1929​
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​
Emma Elizabeth Smith Radcliff 1858 – 1953​
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​
Harry Toulmin Smith 1863 – 1949​
(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​
Edward Herndon Smith 1866 – 1881
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(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​
Virginia Alabama Smith Bromberg 1874 – 1958​
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama)​

Political Party: Whig Party

Education:


Attended West Point Military Academy​

Occupation before War:

School Teacher in Alabama and Virginia​
Attorney in Livingston, Alabama​
1840: Supporter of William Henry Harrison Presidential Campaign.​
1844: Supporter of Henry Clay Presidential Campaign.​
1849: Alabama State Representative​
1851: Lost a race for State Senator by one vote.​
1853 – 1861: Attorney in Mobile, Alabama​
1853 – 1861: Leader in his efforts to oppose secession in Alabama.​
1860: Supporter of John Bell’s Presidential Campaign.
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Civil War Career:

1861: Supporter of Alabama’s decision to leave the Union.​
1861 – 1862: Alabama Delegate to Confederate Provisional Congress.​
1861 – 1862: Strong nationalist in the Alabama Delegation to Congress​
1861: Suggested constitutional ideas too support central government.​
1861: He suggest Provisional Congress terms should only be one year.​
1861: Proposed to let the President accept volunteers after Fort Sumter.​
1861 – 1862: Rejected the Produce Loan for the Central Government.​
1862: Refused to seek election to Confederate States Congressman.​
1862 – 1863: Colonel of 36th​ Alabama Infantry Regiment​
1863: Resigned as Colonel due to bad health on March 16th​.​
1864 – 1865: Chief agent of impressments in Alabama.​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1878: Attorney in Mobile, Alabama​

Died: March 13, 1878

Place of Death: Mobile, Alabama

Age at time of Death: 64 years old

Burial Place: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama
 
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