Robert Smith
BIRTH
Nov 3, 1757
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
DEATH
November 26, 1842
Baltimore, Maryland
FAMILY
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Smith, Robert
(1757-1842)
Robert Smith was a Maryland lawyer, naval administrator, and statesman. A Revolutionary War veteran, he later served as secretary of the navy and secretary of state under Presidents Jefferson and Madison, helping direct American policy in the early republic.
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WIFE
Margaret Smith
(1734-1812)
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DIED:
Baltimore, Maryland
Nov 26, 1842
Robert Smith was born on Nov 3, 1757 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Robert Smith with work or public activity as a lawyer, soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Robert Smith died on Nov 26, 1842 in Baltimore, Maryland. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.