James Vernon Smith

James Vernon Smith ( born July 23, 1926 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, † June 23, 1973 in Chickasha, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1967 and 1969 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Smith attended the public schools of his home and then the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha. Subsequently, he was in agriculture, and especially in the field of animal husbandry, active. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. 1966 Smith was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jed Johnson Jr. of the Democratic Party on January 3, 1967. Since he has not been confirmed at the next elections in 1968, Smith was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1969.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Smith, was appointed by U.S. President Richard Nixon appointed head of the Farmers Home Administration, a federal agency that deals with the problems of farmers. This office he held from 1969 to 1973. Soon after his retirement from that office James Smith died in a fire in a cornfield on his farm northwest of Chickasha.