Thomas Alexander Smith

Thomas Alexander Smith ( * September 3, 1850 in Greenwood, Delaware, † May 1, 1932 in Newark, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1905 and 1907 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1856 Thomas Smith moved with his parents to Ridgely, Maryland. There he attended the public schools and then the Denton Academy. In the following years, Smith worked in the states of Maryland, Delaware and Michigan as a teacher. The early 1880s he returned to Ridgely, where he was 1885-1889 postmaster. He then worked in retail. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1889 and 1893 he was a member of the school board of Caroline County. From 1894 to 1896 Smith sat in the Senate of Maryland. From 1900 to 1904 he headed the Statistical Office of the State of Maryland. In the years 1903 and 1904 he was also Vice President of the national Association of Labour Statisticians. Smith belonged also to the welfare committee of his state. In addition to these activities, he joined in the banking industry. He was a founder of the Bank of Ridgely and its first president was.

In the congressional elections of 1904, Smith was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican William Humphreys Jackson took on 4 March 1905 that he had beaten in the election. Since he lost in 1906 against Jackson, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1907. In the years 1908 and 1910, Smith was a delegate to the respective meetings of Farmer Association Farmers' National Congress. From 1908 to 1912 he served as land commissioner of the state government of Maryland. Between 1915 and 1920 he worked for the tax authority. He died on 1 May 1932 in Newark, and was buried in Ridgley.