Background
Smith, DeWitt Clinton was born on October 30, 1892 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Son of Curtis S. and Carrie T. (Stottlemyer) Smith.
Smith, DeWitt Clinton was born on October 30, 1892 in Hagerstown, Maryland. Son of Curtis S. and Carrie T. (Stottlemyer) Smith.
Educated, Georgetown University Law School.
Assistant secretary board commrs, Government District of Columbia, 1916-1917;
with, American Red Cross, 1919-1958;
assistant to general manager, American Red Cross, 1919-1921;
director fiscal service, American Red Cross, 1921;
assistant to vice chairman, American Red Cross, 1921-1932;
manager eastern area, American Red Cross, 1932-1933;
assistant director domestic operations, American Red Cross, 1933-1939;
director domestic operations, national director disaster felief, American Red Cross, 1939-1943;
vice chairman, American Red Cross, 1943-1947;
trustee, vice chairman retirement system, American Red Cross, 1949-1958;
in charge services in continental United States, vice president in charge social welfare services, American Red Cross, 1950-1951;
assistant general manager, American Red Cross, 1951-1954;
vice president operations, American Red Cross, 1954-1958;
special planning consultant Executive Department, State of Texas, 1958-1959;
member of advisory board region 2, Office Civil and Defense Mobilization, from 1959. Director field operations Mississippi Valley flood relief, 1927, general director drought relief, 1930-1931. General director Ohio and Mississippi Valley flood relief.
Active relief work, Florida, 1926, 28, 35. Chairman special committee plan with Army and Navy, 1935-1941. Chairman National Conference on Home Safety, 1946-1947.
Member Executive Committee National Social Welfare Assembly, 1946-1953. Member Executive Board, board directors National Safety Council, 1946-1948.
Member advising committee on civil defense planning Office Secretary of Defense, 1948-1949. Member of advisory commission on emergency welfare services Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1951-1953. Lieutenant infantry United States Army, 1917-1919.
Member National Association for Employment of Handicapped (policy committee 1947), Masons.
Son of and Carrie T. (Stottlemyer) Son of. Married Mary Gladys Benson, October 30, 1919. Children: DeWitt Clinton, Phyllis (Mistress Edward.