Seargent Smith Prentiss
Date of Birth : Sep 30, 1808
Date of Death : Jul 1, 1850
Seargent Smith Prentiss was the representative for Mississippi in the Twenty-fifth United States Congress serving from 1838 to 1839. Prentiss was noted as one of the most remarkable orators of his day. It was said by Daniel Webster, foremost among American orators of the era, that he had never beheld a speaker as powerful as Prentiss.