title: Josiah Smith
text: # Josiah Smith
  
  Josiah Smith (February 26, 1738 – April 4, 1803) was a United States representative from Massachusetts. Born in Pembroke in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Reverend Thomas Smith and Judith Miller Smith. Smith graduated from Harvard College in 1774, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced.
  
  ## Service in Congress
  
  Smith was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1803. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1802.
  
  ## Death and burial
  
  On his way home from Washington, Smith contracted smallpox in New York, he died in Pembroke. Smith was interred in Center Cemetery, Pembroke, Massachusetts.
  
  