Background
Smith, Eugene L. was born on August 5, 1929 in Elk City, Kansas, United States.
Smith, Eugene L. was born on August 5, 1929 in Elk City, Kansas, United States.
Kansas State University (Bachelor of Science, 1951). Washbum University of Topeka (Juris Doctor, 1957). Delta Theta Phi. Trial Attorney, Federal Power Commission, 1957-1959.
Eugene Owen Smith was an American biographer. In 1950s he joined the Army and was sent to Germany. He came back to New York and started working as a clerk at Newsweek and by 1956 got a job with The Newark Star-Ledger.
From 1956 to 1960 he worked at The New York Post but quit it due to persuasion to write a book about a Wall Street millionaire and his murder in 1955, called The Life and Death of Serge Rubinstein which came out two years later.
In 1964 he published a book about Woodrow Wilson called When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson and six years later published The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Seven years later he wrote a book about Andrew Johnson called High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson which was followed by Lee and Grant: A Dual in 1984 and the 1998biography of John Jay Pershing called Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John Jay Pershing.
In 2009 he published his last book called Mounted Warriors: From Alexander the Great and Cromwell to Stuart, Sheridan and Custer and died off bone cancer on July 25, 2012 at the age of 83.
Seward County (President, 1967-1969), Southwest Kansas and Kansas Bar Associations. Oil and Gas, Probate and With and Estate Planning Law.