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Samuel was born in 1772 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of a Philadelphia merchant, Jonathan Bayard Smith, and Susannah (Bayard) Smith.
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Samuel was born in 1772 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of a Philadelphia merchant, Jonathan Bayard Smith, and Susannah (Bayard) Smith.
He was educated in Philadelphia, graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 1787.
Early in his life Smith became a journalist and author. In the summer of 1796, however, he had begun the publication of a Jeffersonian newspaper, the New World of Philadelphia, which he published until August 16, 1797. In September 1797 he bought the Independent Gazetteer of the elder Joseph Gales, and three months later, November 16, 1797, began to issue the Universal Gazette.
Upon the invitation of Jefferson, he followed the government to Washington in 1800, where he continued the Universal Gazette as a weekly and inaugurated a tri-weekly, the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, issuing the first number October 31, 1800. The Intelligencer, being the official organ of the Jefferson administration, published Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice (1801), the executive proclamations, and public notices. It also received half of the congressional printing. The Smiths often dined with Jefferson and visited him at Monticello.
In 1804 Smith bought "Turkey Thicket, " a country estate which later became part of the grounds of the Catholic University. This place he named "Sidney. " Whether in the country or in town, his home was the rendezvous of statesmen, authors, musicians, politicians, and editors.
Because of ill health, he sold the Intelligencer, August 31, 1810, to the younger Joseph Gales. In July 1813 he was appointed commissioner of revenue, and in 1828 he was chosen president of the Washington Branch of the United States Bank. He served as a director of the Washington Library, as president of the Bank of Washington nearly a decade, as treasurer of the Washington National Monument Society, and as a public school trustee.
He died in Washington and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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He attended an Episcopal church regularly.
Smith was thoroughly a Republican editor. To some of the Jeffersonians he was known as "Silky-Milky Smith. " His admiration for Jefferson, whom he often pronounced the greatest man in America, was unbounded, and he warmly advocated every measure which Jefferson proposed.
Though unwavering in his adherence to Jeffersonian principles, in his personal relations Smith may have been influenced somewhat by his Federalist wife, to whom he was devoted; she never gave up her Federalist friendships. Thus, while Smith admired Calhoun and Madison, their opponent, Henry Clay, was often welcomed into his home.
He advocated nationalism, admired Madison, cared little for Monroe, disliked Adams, and tolerated and feared Jackson. He sympathized with labor and the poor, but feared the result of a government by the masses.
He had a calm, sound, judicial temperament. He enjoyed chess and whist, and drove fine horses.
On September 29 of this year he had married his cousin, the brilliant and versatile Margaret Bayard, daughter of Col. John Bubenheim Bayard. They had a son and three daughters.