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Robert Smith (U.S. politician)
Robert Smith (November 3 , 1757 –November 26 , 1842 ) was the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811 .
Robert was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania . During the American Revolutionary War , he served in the Continental Army and participated in the Battle of Brandywine . He graduated from Princeton University in 1781 and began to practice law in Maryland . Smith became the Presidential Elector in the Electoral College for Maryland in 1789 , then a member of state's senate from 1793 to 1795, and finally a member of Maryland's house of delegates from 1796 to 1800. President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as Secretary of the Navy from July 27 , 1801 to March 4 , 1809, when he was appointed the sixth Secretary of State which he held from March 6 , 1809 until his resignation on April 1 , 1811.
Smith became the president of the not-yet-fully-organized American Bible Society in 1813 . In 1818, he became the founding president of the Maryland Agriculture Society and afterwards retired to a more private life where he enjoyed his wealth. Robert Smith died in Baltimore, Maryland on November 26, 1842.
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