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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | H. Alexander Smith |
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Princeton, New Jersey , United States |
| Email | None |
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January 30, 1880
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| Died | October 27, 1966
(86 years)
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| Contributor | nystate63 |
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| Info | SMITH, Howard Alexander, (uncle of Peter H. Dominick), a Senator from New Jersey; born in New York City, January 30, 1880; attended the Cutler School in New York City; graduated from Princeton University in 1901 and from the law department of Columbia University in 1904; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City; moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1905 and continued the practice of law until 1917; during the First World War served in the United States Food Administration in Colorado and Washington, D.C.; member of postwar relief organizations in 1918; moved to Princeton, N.J., in 1919 and served as executive secretary of Princeton University until 1927; lecturer in the department of politics at Princeton University 1927-1930; resumed the practice of law in New York City 1932-1941; member of the Republican National Committee 1942-1943; elected on November 7, 1944, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1947, caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour; reelected in 1946 and again in 1952, and served from December 7, 1944, to January 3, 1959; was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; chairman, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Eighty-third Congress); special consultant on foreign affairs to the Secretary of State 1959-1960; died in Princeton, N.J., October 27, 1966; interment in Princeton Cemetery.
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