Walter I. Smith

Walter Inglewood Smith ( * July 10, 1862 in Council Bluffs, Iowa; † January 27, 1922 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1900 and 1911 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Smith attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1882 admitted to the bar he began in Council Bluffs to work in his new profession. Between 1890 and 1900 he was a judge in the 15th Judicial District of Iowa. Politically, Smith was a member of the Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Congressman Smith McPherson he was as a candidate of his party in the ninth constituency of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on December 3, 1900 at its new mandate. Since he was confirmed in each case at the following regular congressional elections, Smith could remain until his resignation on 15 March 1911 at the Congress. During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives of the construction of the Panama Canal began under American auspices.

On March 15, 1911 Walter Smith resigned his parliamentary seat after he had been appointed by U.S. President William Howard Taft as the successor of Willis Van Devanter a judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the eighth circuit court. Smith served in this office until his death in January 1922.

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