Joe L. Smith

Joseph Luther " Joe" Smith ( May 22nd, 1880 in Glen Daniel, Raleigh County, West Virginia; † August 23, 1962 in Beckley, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1945 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joe Smith attended both public and private schools. Later he went into the newspaper business. He was until 1911, publisher and editor of the newspaper " Raleigh Register", which appeared in Beckley. He also went into the real estate and banking business.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1904 and 1929 he was mayor of Beckley; 1909-1913 he was a member of the Senate of West Virginia. In the congressional elections of 1928, Smith was chosen in the sixth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1929 is the successor of the Republican Edward T. England. After seven elections Joe Smith could pass in Congress until January 3, 1945, a total of eight legislative sessions. In this time, the world economic crisis, the repeal of the Prohibition Act, the New Deal legislation and the Second World War fell. Since 1931, Smith was chairman of the Mining Committee.

1944 renounced Smith on another candidacy. In the following years he worked in the banking business. He died on 23 August 1962. His son Hulett C. Smith ( 1918-2012 ) held from 1965 to 1969 as governor of West Virginia.

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