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Senate Years of Service: 1951-1969 Party: Democrat
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SMATHERS, George Armistead, (nephew of William Howell Smathers),
a Representative and a Senator from Florida; born in Atlantic City,
N.J., November 14, 1913; moved to Miami, Fla., in 1919; attended the public
schools of Dade County, Fla.; graduated from the University of Florida at
Gainesville in 1936 and from its law school in 1938; admitted to the bar in
1938 and commenced practice in Miami, Fla.; assistant United States district
attorney 1940-1942; during World War II served in the United States Marine
Corps from May 1942 until discharged as a major in October 1945; special
assistant to the U.S. attorney general from October 1945 until his resignation
in January 1946 to begin his campaign for Representative in Congress; elected
as a Democrat to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses (January 3,
1947-January 3, 1951); was not a candidate for renomination in 1950; elected to
the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956 and 1962 and served from
January 3, 1951, until January 3, 1969; was not a candidate for reelection in
1968; chairman, Special Committee on Aging (Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth
Congresses), Select Committee on Small Business (Ninetieth Congress); resumed
the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Miami, Fla.; was a resident of
Washington, D.C., and Indian Creek Village, Fla., until his death on January
20, 2007; interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
BibliographyWickman, Patricia R.
The Uncommon Man: George Smathers of Florida. Privately
published, 1994; Crispell, Brian Lewis.
Testing the Limits: George Armistead Smathers and Cold War
America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
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