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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiLarkin I. SMITH
(1944-1989)
SMITH, Larkin I., a
Representative from Mississippi; born in Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., June 26, 1944; attended Poplarville Elementary
School; graduated, Poplarville High School, 1962; chief deputy
sheriff, Pearl River County sheriff’s department, 1966-1972;
chief investigator, Harrison County sheriff’s department,
1971-1977; B.A., William Carey College, 1979; chief of police,
Gulfport, Miss., August 1977-December 1983; Sheriff of Harrison
County, Miss., January 1, 1984, to January 1, 1989; elected as a
Republican to the One Hundred First Congress and served from
January 3, 1989, until his death August 13, 1989, in a private
aircraft crash in the DeSoto National Forest, Miss., while en route
from Hattiesburg to Gulfport, Miss.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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