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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasWint SMITH
(1892-1976)
SMITH, Wint, a
Representative from Kansas; born in Mankato, Jewell County, Kans.,
October 7, 1892; attended the public schools and was graduated from
the Mankato High School; during the First World War served in the
United States Army as a combat Infantry officer from May 11, 1917,
to September 4, 1919, with twenty-four months’ service
overseas; University of Kansas at Lawrence, A.B., 1920; Yale
University Law School, LL.B., 1922; was admitted to the bar in 1923
and commenced practice in Kansas City, Kans., was admitted to
practice in all Federal courts, including the United States Supreme
Court in 1934; assistant attorney general 1931-1940; attorney for
Kansas Highway Commission 1932-1940; during the Second World War
served as lieutenant colonel and commanding officer of the Six
Hundred and Thirty-fifth Tank Destroyer Battalion from May 1941 to
December 1945, with twenty-two months’ service overseas;
retired as brigadier general; resumed the practice of law; elected
as a Republican to the Eightieth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1961); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; returned
to his home in Mankato and engaged in farming and ranching; died in
Wichita, Kans., April 27, 1976; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery,
Mankato, Kans.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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