Gomer Griffith Smith

Gomer Griffith Smith

Gomer Griffith Smith (born July 11, 1896 in Kansas City , Missouri , † May 26, 1953 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1939 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gomer Smith attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1915 the Rockingham Academy . Between 1916 and 1918 he taught at a school in Clay County . After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in Missouri in 1920 and in Oklahoma in 1922. He then started working in his new profession in Oklahoma City.

Smith was a member of the Democratic Party . After the death of Congressman Robert P. Hill , Smith was elected to succeed him in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he ended the legislature of his predecessor between December 10, 1937 and January 3, 1939. In 1938 he did not stand for re-election. Instead, he unsuccessfully applied for his party's nomination for a seat in the US Senate .

After his tenure in Congress ended , Smith withdrew from politics. He worked again as a lawyer in Oklahoma City, where he died in 1953.

Web links

• Gomer Griffith Smith in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Gomer Griffith Smith in the database of Find a Grave (English)