Henry P. Smith III

Henry P. Smith III ( born September 29, 1911 in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, New York, † October 1, 1995 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1975 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Smith attended the public schools of his home and then the Nichols School in Buffalo. In 1933 he graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent law degree at Cornell University in Ithaca and its 1936 was admitted to the bar he began in Ithaca to work in this profession. In 1941 he moved his residence and his law firm to North Tonawanda. He was also mayor 1961-1963. In 1961, he was also a family court judge in Niagara County. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1964, Smith was elected in the 40th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William E. Miller on January 3, 1965. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1975 five legislative sessions. Since 1973 he represented there as a successor to Frank Horton the 36th district of his state. His time as a congressman was determined by the events of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, and in 1974 the Watergate scandal. In 1974 he gave up another candidacy.

Between 1975 and 1978 Henry Smith was Chairman of the International Joint Commission which deals with water issues between the United States and Canada. He was also a director and CEO of the Association to Unite the Democracies. He died on 1 October 1995 in Washington, where he was also buried.