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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaHoke SMITH
(1855-1931)
Senate Years of Service:
1911-1921Party: DemocratSMITH, Hoke, a Senator
from Georgia; born in Newton, Catawba County, N.C., September 2,
1855; educated principally by his father, a professor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; studied law in
Atlanta, Ga.; admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in
Atlanta, Ga.; became owner of the Atlanta Evening Journal in 1887
and served as editor and president until 1900; appointed Secretary
of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland and
served from 1893 to 1896; resumed the practice of law in Atlanta,
Ga.; president of the Atlanta Board of Education 1896-1907;
Governor of Georgia 1907-1909; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1908; again Governor from July 1911, until his
resignation in November 1911, having previously been elected
Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on July
12, 1911, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander S.
Clay, but did not assume these duties until later, preferring to
continue as Governor; reelected to the Senate in 1914 and served
from November 16, 1911, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1920; chairman, Committee on Education and
Labor (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Sixth-sixth Congress);
resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., and
Atlanta, Ga.; died in Atlanta, Ga., November 27, 1931; interment in
Oakland Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Carageorge, Ted. “An
Evaluation of Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Watson as Georgia
Reformers.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1963;
Grantham, Dewey. Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New
South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
1958.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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