George J. Smith

George Joseph Smith ( born November 7, 1859 in Kingston, New York; † 24 December 1913 in Atlantic City, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Joseph Smith was born about two years before the outbreak of civil war in Ulster County. He attended public schools. Then he went to banking transactions, but also worked as a producer in New York City and Kingston. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1898 he chaired the Republican County Committee and in 1899 he was treasurer of the Republican State Committee. In the congressional elections of 1902 for the 58th Congress, Smith was in the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles L. Knapp on March 4, 1903. Since he gave up for reelection in 1904, he retired after March 3, 1905 together from the Congress. After his conference time he went to New York City to the real estate business, but also ran a wholesale grocery business. In 1909 he attended the Republican National Convention as a delegate. He died about half a year before the outbreak of World War I in Atlantic City and was then buried in the Wiltwyck Cemetery in Kingston.