Gomer Griffith Smith

Gomer Griffith Smith ( * July 11, 1896 in Kansas City, Missouri, † May 26, 1953 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1939 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gomer Smith attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1915, the Rockingham Academy. Between 1916 and 1918 he taught at a school in Clay County as a teacher. After studying law he was admitted in 1920 in Missouri and 1922 in Oklahoma as a lawyer. Then he began to Oklahoma City to work in his new profession.

Smith was a member of the Democratic Party. After the death of Congressman Robert P. Hill Smith was in a special election to succeed him in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he completed between December 10, 1937, to January 3, 1939, the term of his predecessor. In 1938, he did not stand for re-election. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

After the end of his time in Congress, Smith withdrew from politics. He again worked as a lawyer in Oklahoma City, where he died in 1953.