Background
He was born on July 29, 1923, in Barnesboro, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
politician member of the New York State Senate
He was born on July 29, 1923, in Barnesboro, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
He attended Northport High School. After the war he graduated from Cornell University, and in 1949 from Cornell Law School.
He practiced law in Northport. Smith was an assistant district attorney of Suffolk County from 1951 to 1958, Chief Assistant Doctorate.A. from 1959 to 1961. And Doctorate.A. from 1962 to 1965.
In 1990, he ran on the Republican ticket for New York Attorney General, but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat Robert Abrams.
Smith died while on vacation in the Catskill Mountains on October 19, 1993, in Kingston Hospital in Kingston, New York, of a brain tumor. And was buried at the Northport Rural Cemetery.
He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1978, sitting in the 176th, 177th, 178th, 179th, 180th, 181st and 182nd New York State Legislatures. On November 1, 1979, he was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey as a member of the New York State Commission of Investigation.