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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaGeorge Armistead SMATHERS
(1913-2007)
Senate Years of Service:
1951-1969Party: DemocratSMATHERS, 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.
Bibliography
Wickman, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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