Frank E. Smith

Frank E. Smith, 1961

Frank Ellis Smith (born February 21, 1918 in Sidon , Leflore County , Mississippi , † August 2, 1997 in Jackson , Mississippi) was an American politician and represented the state of Mississippi as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Ellis Smith was born on February 21, 1918 in Sidon, Leflore County, Mississippi. He attended the public schools in Sidon and Greenwood , Mississippi. He then graduated from Sunflower Junior College in Moorhead , Mississippi in 1936 and from the University of Mississippi in 1941 .

During the Second World War he enlisted as a private on February 9, 1942 in the United States Army . He then graduated from the Field Artillery Officers Candidate School . He then served in Europe with the rank of captain in the 243rd Artillery Battalion, 3rd Army. On February 13, 1946, he was released into the reserve with the rank of major in the field artillery.

After he was discharged from the army, he worked as the managing editor of the Greenwood Morning Star between 1946 and 1947. He also studied in 1946 at the American University in Washington, DC

Smith was an assistant to US Senator John Stennis between 1947 and 1949 . He was then a member of Mississippi's Senate from 1948 to 1950. He was then elected a Democrat in the eighty-second and subsequent five Congresses. His tenure ran from January 3, 1951 until his resignation on November 14, 1962. He ran for the eighty-eighth Congress in 1962, but failed.

During his tenure in Congress in 1956 he was involved in the constitution of the Southern Manifesto , which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions.

Smith served on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority from November 14, 1962 to May 18, 1972. He then worked as the director of the Illinois state high school in 1973 and 1974. He was then a visiting professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute between 1977 and 1979. He also served as the Special Assistant to Mississippi Governor William Winter between 1980 and 1983. He was then elected to the Southern Regional Council as a Life Fellow in 1984 .

Frank Ellis Smith died on August 2, 1997 in Jackson, Mississippi.

literature

• Smith, Frank E. Congressman from Mississippi. New York: Pantheon Books, 1964; Smith, Frank E. The Politics of Conservation. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.

Web links

• Biography from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress