Title: Israel Smith
Content:  Smith began his political career in 1785 when he served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. He served in the Vermont House again from 1788 to 1791. During this period, he was active in solving Vermont's boundary disputes with other states and served as a delegate to the Vermont Constitutional Convention, at which Vermont ratified the American Constitution. By 1790 Smith had moved to Rutland, Vermont. When Vermont became a state in 1791, Smith ran for Vermont's seat in the United States House of Representatives. In a bitterly fought election between Smith, Matthew Lyon and Isaac Tichenor, Smith received second place, 35% of the vote in the first round, but won the runoff against Lyon. Smith represented Vermont's 1st District in the U.S. House from 1791 to 1797. In 1792 and 1794, Lyon unsuccessfully ran against 
Title: November 1918
Content:  Oregon against Democrat challenger Walter M. Pierce, but died in office five months later. ; Republican William Cameron Sproul was elected 27th Governor of Pennsylvania with 61 percent of the vote. ; Democrat Robert Archer Cooper was elected 93rd Governor of South Carolina, defeating main opponent John Gardiner Richards Jr. with 58 percent of the vote. ; Republic Percival W. Clement was elected 57th Governor of Vermont with 67 percent of the vote. ; Former Cunard ocean liner HMS Campania sank in a violent squall off the coast of Scotland with no loss of life. ; Treutlen County, Georgia, named after American Revolution leader John A. Treutlen, was established with its seat in Soperton. ; Died: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, British occultist, co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (b. 1854) 
Title: Edward Seymour (Vermont politician)
Content:  Seymour was born in Vergennes, Vermont on October 26, 1810. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1831 and became a farmer and businessman in Vergennes. In addition to maintaining an interest in the Vermont Agricultural Society, Seymour served as President of the National Bank of Vergennes. Originally a Whig, Seymour held local offices including Justice of the Peace, and he served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1847 to 1848. In 1850 Seymour received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Vermont. He served in the Vermont Senate from 1850 to 1852, and was Senate President in 1852. In 1853 Seymour was President of the Vermont Whig Convention. Seymour became a Republican when the party was founded. He served again in the Vermont House from 1860 to 1861. He was a delegate to the 1870 state constitutional convention, and in 1876 was elected to another term in the Vermont Senate. Seymour died in Vergennes on June 15, 1883.
Title: 1807 Vermont gubernatorial election
Content:  The 1807 Vermont gubernatorial election for Governor of Vermont took place throughout September, and resulted in the election of Israel Smith to a one-year term. The Vermont General Assembly met in Woodstock on October 8. The Vermont House of Representatives appointed a committee to examine the votes of the freemen of Vermont for governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, and members of the governor's council. The committee's examination of the votes showed that Israel Smith defeated incumbent Isaac Tichenor for a one-year term. In the election for lieutenant governor, the voters selected Paul Brigham for his twelfth one-year term. Benjamin Swan was elected to a one-year term as treasurer, his eighth. In the races for lieutenant governor and treasurer, the vote totals and names of other candidates were not recorded. In the race for governor, a contemporary newspaper article reported the results as follows.
Title: 1861 Vermont gubernatorial election
Content:  The 1861 Vermont gubernatorial election for governor of Vermont was held on Tuesday, September 3. In keeping with the "Mountain Rule", incumbent Republican Erastus Fairbanks, who had also served as governor from 1852 to 1853, was not a candidate for a third one-year term. The Republican nominee was Frederick Holbrook, a former member of the Vermont Senate. With the Democratic Party split nationally over the issue of slavery during the American Civil War, Andrew Tracy, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, appeared on the ballot as a pro-Union Democrat. Benjamin H. Smalley was on the ballot as a "Peace Democrat," Democrats who favored a compromise with the states that had formed the Confederacy. Vermont continued to oppose slavery and support the Union, which was reflected in its support of Republican candidates. Holbrook easily defeated both Democrats and won a one-year term that began on October 15. Illness confined Holbrook at home for most of October, and he delayed traveling to Montpelier to take his oath of office until October 22.
Title: Henry R. Start
Content:  State Senate in 1880 and served on the Judiciary committee and as chairman of the joint standing committee on the reform school. He was a Trustee of the Vermont Reform School from December 1880 to December 1888. Start served as a presidential elector in the election of 1888, and cast his ballot for Benjamin Harrison. In 1890 Start served in the Vermont House of Representatives. He was elected Speaker, but resigned after being elected an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Start served on the court until his death. He died at his home in Bakersfield on November 7, 1905 and was buried in Bakersfield's Maple Grove Cemetery. He was succeeded on the Vermont Supreme Court by Willard W. Miles.
Title: George Whitman Hendee
Content:  conscription and recruiting activities.) He served in the Vermont State Senate from 1866 to 1868, and was chosen to serve as Senate President. Hendee was elected Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1869. On February 7, 1870, Governor Peter T. Washburn died; Hendee succeeded to the governorship, and his oath of office was administered by Justice Benjamin H. Steele of the Vermont Supreme Court. He completed the remainder of Washburn's term, which ended on October 3, 1870, but did not run for a full term in 1870. Republicans, who had won all statewide elections in Vermont since the founding of the party (and would continue to do so until the late 1950s), debated whether 
Title: Peter T. Washburn
Content:  Peter Thacher Washburn (September 7, 1814 – February 7, 1870) was a Vermont lawyer, politician and soldier. A veteran of the American Civil War, he served as the 31st governor of Vermont as a Republican from 1869 to 1870, and was the first Vermont Governor to die in office. Washburn was a native of Lynn, Massachusetts, and was raised in Ludlow, Vermont. he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1835, and taught school while studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1838, and practiced law, first in Ludlow and then in Woodstock, while also becoming active in politics as a Whig. In addition 
Title: John Smith (Vermont politician)
Content:  John Smith (August 12, 1789 – November 26, 1858) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from Vermont. He served as a U.S. Representative for one term, prior to which he served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives.
Title: Horace Fairbanks
Content:  Vermont's electors in the 1872 presidential election. In 1869 he was elected to the Vermont State Senate; He served one term, but illness prevented him from attending sessions regularly. He was a delegate to the 1872 Republican National Convention. In 1871 Fairbanks presented to St. Johnsbury the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, which includes a public library and an art gallery. He was a trustee of the University of Vermont and Phillips Academy. Elected Governor of Vermont in 1876, Fairbanks served a two-year term. Fairbanks died in New York City on March 17, 1888. He is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in St. Johnsbury.

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": He represented Vermont, and died in Sycamore, Illinois!
Answer: True