Charles Bennett Smith

Charles Bennett Smith

Charles Bennett Smith (September 14, 1870 – May 21, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Biography

Born in Sardinia, New York, Smith attended the district schools, and was graduated from Arcade Academy in 1886. He engaged in agricultural pursuits, subsequently became a railroad telegraph operator, and later pursued newspaper work in Buffalo. Reporter on the Buffalo Courier 1890-1893. He became managing editor of the Buffalo Times in 1894. He was editor of the Buffalo Evening Enquirer and the Buffalo Morning Courier. He was appointed a member of the Buffalo Board of School Examiners and served two years as its chairman.

Smith was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1919). He served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-fourth Congress), Committee on Patents (Sixty-fifth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He engaged in commercial and industrial pursuits in Buffalo, New York. Superintendent of Standards and Purchases, Albany, New York, from 1935 until his death in Wilmington Notch, New York, May 21, 1939. He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda, New York.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
De Alva S. Alexander
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 36th congressional district

1911–1913
Succeeded by
Sereno E. Payne
New district Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 41st congressional district

1913–1919
Succeeded by
Clarence MacGregor



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