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  Smith, John Walter
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NameJohn Walter Smith
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Snow Hill, Maryland , United States
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Born February 05, 1845
Died April 19, 1925 (80 years)
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Infoattended private schools and Union Academy; engaged in the lumber business in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina; president of the First National Bank of Snow Hill and director in many business and financial institutions; elected to the State senate in 1889, 1893, and 1897, and served as president in 1894; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1899, until his resignation on January 12, 1900; Governor of Maryland 1900-1904; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Pinkney Whyte; reelected in 1909 and 1914 and served from March 25, 1908, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful for reelection in 1920; chairman, Committee to Investigate Trespassers Upon Land (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-sixth Congress); retired to private life and died in Baltimore, Md.


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  11/02/1920 MD US Senate Lost 43.25% (-4.04%)
  11/03/1914 MD US Senate Won 50.99% (+7.10%)
  11/03/1908 MD US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  07/06/1900 US Vice President - D Convention Lost 1.22% (-70.07%)
  11/07/1899 MD Governor Won 51.12% (+4.83%)
  11/08/1898 MD District 1 Won 47.90% (+2.65%)
  01/21/1892 MD US Senate - Special Election Lost 3.54% (-72.57%)
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