Address of Alexander Smyth to Freeholders of Congressional District 6 (1).

• imprint_number: 1817.105
• title: [Address of Alexander Smyth to Freeholders of Congressional District 6]
• sequence_number: 105
• year: 1817
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Smyth, Alexander (1765-1830).
• notes: No copy known extant; existence of this title indicated by Postscript of Alexander Smyth to Freeholders of Congressional District 6 (1817.106), dated Richmond, February 16, 1817, near end of Assembly session that met from November 11, 1816, to February 22, 1817; previously Smyth announced his intention to seek an open congressional seat created by the retirement of Federalist congressman Daniel Sheffey (1770-1830) in a letter to his current Wythe County constituents (1816.128); in these two ensuing letters, he addressed voters in the district he hoped to represent in Congress, which included Wythe; Smyth defeated Federalist Benjamin Estill (1780-1853) in that subsequent election by a 2-1 margin and then represented the 6th Virginia Congressional District until 1825, then again from 1827 until his death.
  
  
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