John M. C. Smith

John MC Smith ( born February 6, 1853 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, † March 30, 1923 in Charlotte, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1923 he represented two times the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Smith came in 1855 with his parents to the United States, where the family settled near Plymouth, Ohio. There he attended the public schools. In 1867 he moved to Charlotte in Michigan, where he worked in agriculture. In addition, he studied until 1879 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1882 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Detroit. In the years 1885 to 1888, Smith was district attorney in Eaton County. He also continued to work in agriculture. In 1898 he became president of the First National Bank of Charlotte. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1903 he was elected to the City Council of Charlotte; In 1908 he was a member of a meeting to revise the constitution of Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Smith was the third electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Washington Gardner on March 4, 1911. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1921 five legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War fell. At that time the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and approved in Congress. From 1919 to 1921 Smith was Chairman of the Committee on Labour Affairs ( Committee on Labor ).

1920 Smith waived on a bid again. This year, his party colleague William H. Frankhauser was elected his successor. But this already died on 9 May 1921. When the due -elections Smith was then re-elected to Congress, where he could take his former seat again on 28 June 1921. For the regular elections of 1922 he was confirmed. He could remain in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1925. Smith died only four weeks after the start of the new parliamentary session on 30 March 1923 in his hometown of Charlotte. After a new election his mandate fell to Arthur B. Williams.

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