Thomas Francis Smith

Thomas Francis Smith ( born July 24, 1865 in New York City; † April 11, 1923 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1917 and 1921 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Francis Smith was one month after the end of the Civil War in New York City born about and grew up there. He attended community schools, the St. Francis Xavier College, Manhattan College, and from 1899 to 1901, the New York Law School. As a reporter, he worked for the New York World and the New York Tribune. Between 1898 and 1917 he was clerk at the New York City Court, he received his license to practice law in 1911 and then began to practice in New York City. He took 1915 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of New York and part of the 1916 Democratic National Convention in St. Louis ( Missouri). Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

He was in a by-election on 12 April 1917 at the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Michael F. Conry. In the congressional elections of 1918 he ran in the 16th electoral district of New York for the 66th Congress. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1919, the successor of Peter J. Dooling. Since he gave up for reelection in 1920, retired after March 3, 1921 from the Congress.

On April 1, 1921 he was Public Administrator of New York - a position which he held until his death. He died on April 11, 1923 in a taxi accident in New York City. His body was interred in the Calvary Cemetery in Long Iceland City.