John Hugh Smith Explained

John Hugh Smith (1819 - 1870) was an American Whig politician. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, three times, from 1845 to 1846, from 1850 to 1853, and from 1862 to 1865.

Early life

Smith was born in 1819 in Nashville.^[1] His father was John H. Smith and his mother, Maria (Combs) Smith.^[1]

Career

Smith served as Mayor of Nashville from 1845 to 1846, from 1850 to 1853, and from 1862 to 1865.^{[1] [2] [3]} In 1862, he had been appointed by Tennessee Governor (and future President) Andrew Johnson to replace Richard Boone Cheatham, who was arrested.^{[4] [5]}

After his retirement in 1865, Smith shot at a policeman called Brown in Nashville.^[6]

Personal life and death

Smith was never married.^[1] He died on July 7, 1870, in Nashville, and he is buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN . 2013-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160313015642/http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/mayors.html . 2016-03-13 . dead .
2. http://www.library.nashville.org/research/res_nash_history_mayors.asp Nashville Library
3. William Henry McRaven, Nashville: Athens of the South, Tennessee Book Company, 1949 p. 272 https://books.google.com/books?id=qjAXAAAAIAAJ&q=%22John+Hugh+Smith%22+nashville
4. Paul H. Bergeron, Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstruction, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2011, p. 23, https://books.google.com/books?id=LJyRKcGLrTUC&dq=%22John+Hugh+Smith%22+nashville&pg=PA23
5. William C. Harris, With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. 45 https://books.google.com/books?id=h0z6SUtujlcC&dq=%22John+Hugh+Smith%22+nashville&pg=PA45
6. https://www.nytimes.com/1865/11/07/news/tennessee-affray-nashville-case-embezzlement-cotton-market-interesting-relics.html ROM TENNESSEE.; An Affray at Nashville--Case of Embezzlement--Cotton Market. Interesting Relics Found--Pardons for Notorious Rebels. From Toronto--A Contradiction. From Buffalo--Fatal Bridge Accident.