John H. Smithwick

John Harris Smithwick (* July 17, 1872 at Orange, Cherokee County, Georgia; † 2 December 1948 in Moultrie, Georgia ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1927 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Smithwick attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1895, the Reinhardt Normal College in Waleska. After a subsequent law degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon (Tennessee ) and its made ​​in 1898 admitted to the bar he began in Moultrie to work in his new profession. In 1906 he moved his residence and his law firm to Pensacola in Florida.

Politically, Smithwick member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1918 he was in the third electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Walter Kehoe on March 4, 1919. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 four legislative sessions. At this time there the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted.

1926 John Smithwick was not nominated by his party for re-election. Subsequently he worked until 1932 in Fort Myers and in the federal capital of Washington in the real estate industry; then he withdrew into retirement. John Smithwick died on 2 December 1948 in Moultrie.