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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyHoward Alexander SMITH
(1880-1966)
Senate Years of Service:
1944-1959Party: RepublicanSMITH, 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; 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
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.
Bibliography
Leary, William, Jr. “Smith of New Jersey: A Biography of H.
Alexander Smith, United States Senator From New Jersey,
1944-1959.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1966;
Smith, H. Alexander. “Information and Intelligence for
Congress.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science 289 (September 1953): 114-19.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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