Daniel Smith (surveyor)
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United States Senator from Tennessee |
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In office October 6, 1798 – March 4, 1799 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Anderson |
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In office March 4, 1805 – March 31, 1809 |
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| Preceded by | William Cocke |
| Succeeded by | Jenkin Whiteside |
| Secretary of the Southwest Territory | |
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In office 1790–1796 |
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| Preceded by | (none) |
| Succeeded by | (none) |
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October 29, 1748 Stafford County, Virginia, United States |
| Died | June 16, 1818 (aged 69) Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
Daniel Smith (October 29, 1748 – June 16, 1818) was a surveyor, an American Revolutionary War patriot, and twice a United States Senator from Tennessee.
Smith was born in Stafford County, Virginia. He was a descendant of Colonel William Tangier Smith (1654–1704), who was born in Northamptonshire, England and settled in the Province of New York. Daniel Smith attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Becoming a surveyor, he moved to Augusta County, Virginia, serving as deputy surveyor of the county in 1773. As a militia officer, he helped defend the Virginia frontier during Dunmore's War and the American Revolution. He became sheriff of Augusta County in 1780 and was commissioned a colonel in the militia, taking part in the later battles of the Revolutionary War, including Guilford Courthouse and Kings Mountain. On October 5, 1781, Smith was appointed "Assistant Deputy Surveyor" in the Southern Department of the Continental Army under Thomas Hutchins.
At the war's end, Smith moved to what is now Sumner County, Tennessee to claim the land grant for his military service. As county surveyor, he surveyed what became the site of the town of Nashville, Tennessee. He was prominent in local affairs and was appointed a brigadier general in the militia. He was a member of the 1789 North Carolina convention which voted to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1790, President George Washington named him Secretary (chief deputy) of the Southwest Territory. Smith was a member of the convention that wrote the Tennessee State Constitution of 1796, which came into effect with its statehood on June 1, 1796. Smith prepared the first official map of Tennessee.
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