Neal Edward Smith

Neal Edward Smith ( born March 23, 1920 in Hedrick, Keokuk County, Iowa ) is a former American politician. Between 1959 and 1995 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Neal Smith attended the public schools in Packwood (Iowa). Then he interrupted his education to join from 1942 to 1945 as a soldier in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. After the war he attended from 1945 to 1946, the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Missouri. Until 1948 he studied at Syracuse University. After a subsequent law degree from Drake University and his made ​​in 1950 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession. Alongside he also worked as a farmer.

Between 1951 and 1952, Smith was deputy district attorney in Polk County in Iowa. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party, whose youth organization he headed at the federal level 1953-1955. From 1953 to 1954 Smith was chairman of the welfare committee in Polk County.

1958 Smith was in the fifth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Paul Cunningham on January 3, 1959. After 17 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1995, a total 18 Related legislatures. Since the elections of 1972 he represented the fourth district in which he replaced John Henry Kyl on January 3, 1973. Between 1973 and 1975 he was chairman of a special committee to investigate campaign spending. From 1977 to 1981 he was a member of the Committee on Small Business. During his long period in the Congress of the 23rd, the 24th of the 25th, the 26th and the 27th Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and adopted there.

In the 1994 elections Neal Smith lost to Greg Ganske. Then he withdrew into retirement. He is married to Beatrice Haven and has two children.