Marcus A. Smith

Marcus Aurelius Smith ( * January 24, 1851 in Cynthiana, Kentucky, † April 7, 1924 in Washington DC ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Arizona in the U.S. Senate.

After schooling Smith initially worked as a teacher even in Bourbon County in Kentucky. After he graduated from Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky, after which he entered the service of the city of Lexington as a prosecutor. From 1879 to 1881 he lived in San Francisco and practiced there as a lawyer before he moved to Tombstone in the Arizona Territory. He was also in 1882 Prosecutor.

As a delegate of the territory Marcus Smith was in 1887 elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. After eight years, he decided not to run again in 1895 initially before were joined three other terms of office ( 1897-1899, 1901-1903, 1905-1909 ).

After Arizona was in 1912 raised to the State, the election of Marcus Smith and Henry F. Ashurst made ​​at its first U.S. senators. Smith was re-elected once, but lost the 1920 Republican Ralph H. Cameron, and resigned from the Congress of. During his time in the Senate he was chairman of several committees.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Smith to the International Joint Commission, where he remained until his death in 1924.

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