Volney V. Smith
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Refimprove Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Volney Voltaire Smith (September 28, 1841 – April 17, 1897) was an American politician who served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1873 to 1874. He served as president of the Arkansas Senate in 1873.[1]
He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War including with a "colored" infantry unit.[2]
He was a delegate to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1874. He and other Republicans refused to sign the document produced.[2] He made a claim to the governorship in waie of the Brooks-Baxter War but fled after an arrest warrant was sworn out for him and U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant chose not to intervene.[2]
He was born in 1841 to Delazon Smith, a newspaper editor and Democratic Party politician, and Eliza Voke Smith. His second cousin was politician and mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts Edward J. Voke.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He died in the state's mental institution.[2]
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