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State Representative
Whig
| Henry | |
| 4 | |
| 12/06/1841 - 12/04/1842 | |
| 4 |
Born on June 10, 1800, in Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, Simeon Smead served as both town supervisor and commissioner of common schools in Little Valley, Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1823. By 1837, he had moved to Burlington, Iowa. On November 29, 1841, he married Jane Melissa White in Henry County, Iowa. Smead was elected as a representative from Henry County to the House of Representatives for the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Iowa Territory, serving from December 1841 to December 1842. He died October 1, 1845, in Henry County.