David Highbaugh Smith

David Highbaugh Smith ( born December 19, 1854 in Hammonville, Hart County, Kentucky, † December 17, 1928 in Hodgenville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1907 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Smith attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1876 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Hodgenville to work in this profession. In 1878, he was also in the LaRue County School Board. In this district, he worked 1878-1881 as a prosecutor. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

From 1881 to 1883 was Smith MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Then he sat 1885-1893 in the State Senate; since 1891, he served as the acting president. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the fourth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican John W. Lewis on March 4, 1897. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1907 five legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was. In 1905, Smith was head of an impeachment of Federal Judge Charles Swayne.

1906 renounced David Smith on another candidacy. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. Later he became president of the Farmers' National Bank of Hodgenville. He died on December 17, 1928 in Hodgenville.

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