Peter Plympton Smith

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Peter Plympton Smith, 1989

Peter Plympton Smith (born October 31, 1945 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American politician . He represented the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives and was its Vice Governor .

Career

Peter Smith was born in Boston but grew up in Burlington, Vermont. There he attended public schools. He then studied at the Phillips Academy in Andover (Massachusetts) until 1964 . This was followed by courses of study at Princeton University and Harvard University . There he graduated in 1968 and 1970. Then Smith began to work in the school service himself. In 1970 he became director of an Education Facility in Montpelier . He was the founder and first president of the Community College of Vermont from 1970 to 1978 . In the 1970s and 1980s he held other offices in the education system in his home country.

Politically, Smith became a member of the Republican Party . In 1978 he ran for the office of lieutenant governor of Vermont. After he had beaten his party colleague and previous incumbent T. Garry Buckley in the Republican primary, he was defeated by his Democratic opponent Madeleine M. Kunin . Between 1981 and 1982 he was a member of the Vermont Senate , in which his father Frederick P. Smith had already sat; from 1983 to 1986 he served as the state's lieutenant governor. In 1986 he ran unsuccessfully for governor : he was defeated by the democratic incumbent Madeleine M. Kunin. He then headed Norwich University from 1987 to 1988 .

In 1988 Smith was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Jim Jeffords on January 3, 1989 . Since he was defeated by Bernie Sanders in the 1990 elections, he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1991 . Between 1991 and 1994, Smith was Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development at George Washington University in Washington. In 1995 he was the founder and until 2005 the first president of California State University, Monterey Bay in Seaside . After that he was one of the Deputy Directors of UNESCO . He has lived in Marina , California since 1995 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Vermont's 'most colorful lieutenant governor' Buckley dies at 89 May 24, 2012, Burlington Free Press
  2. Results of the elections for the lieutenant governor ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 56 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vermont-archives.org