Background
Blanton, Smiley was born on May 7, 1882 in Unionville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hiram and Sally (Brunson) Blanton.
Blanton, Smiley was born on May 7, 1882 in Unionville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hiram and Sally (Brunson) Blanton.
Bachelor of Science, Vanderbilt University, 1904. Doctor of Medicine Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1914. Diploma in Psychological Medicine, Royal College Physicians and Surgeons, London, England.
Instructor department of speech Cornell Univercity, 1907-1911. Instructor, assistant professor, later professor speech and mental hygiene University of Wisconsin, 1914-1924. Director Minneapolis Child Guidance Clinic, also assistant professor clinical medicine University of Minnesota, 1924-1927.
Professor child study Vassar College, 1927-1931.
Assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, Cornell, 1933-1938. Director religiopsychiat. clinic American Foundation Religion and Psychiatry, New York City, since 1937.
Became associate professor clinical psychiatry Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, 1943, now professor emeritus. Practiced medicine, New York, since 1931.
Served as Lieutenant, later captain, Medical Corps, United States Army, World War I. Member New York Academy of Medicine, New York Psychoanalytic Society, American Foundation Religion and Psychiatry (associate founder, director), American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, Sigma Nu. Club: Sleepy Hollow Country.
Married Margaret Gray, October 18, 1910.