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Howard Worth Smith was born in Broad Run, Virginia, on February 2, 1883. He attended public schools and graduated from Bethel Military Academy in Warrenton, Virginia during 1901. He took his LLB at the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1903. Smith was admitted to the bar in 1904 and practiced in Alexandria ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Howard W. Smith, a Virginia Democratic congressman, was one of America’s most powerful politicians from the New Deal to the Great Society. A master obstructionist who chaired the House Rules Committee, he used his power to fight the liberal agendas of presidential administrations from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson.
Apr 25, 2018 · Howard W. Smith, a Virginia Democratic congressman, was one of America's most powerful politicians from the New Deal to the Great Society. A master obstructionist who chaired the House Rules Committee, he used his power to fight the liberal agendas of presidential administrations from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson.
Jan 25, 2024 · “Sex” Amendment Backfires “By this time,” writes Bruce J. Dierenfield in Keeper of the Rules: Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia (1987), “the eighty-one-year-old Virginian’s advancing years had rounded his shoulders and reduced his gait to a hesitant walk; but the burning desire to oppose civil rights still shone in his flinty brown eyes.”
Abstract: This dissertation is a biography of Howard Worth Smith (1883-1976), the dean of the Virginia congressional delegation and chairman of the House Committee on Rules in the late fifties and sixties. During his tenure in the House, Smith played a major role in advancing such anticommunist and antilabor legislation as the Smith Act of 1940 ...
Smith, Howard Worth, 1883-1976 Authoritative Name: Smith, Howard Worth, 1883-1976 Biography: Howard W. Smith, a Virginia Democratic congressman (1931-1967) and chairman of the House Committee on Rules (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses).
Oct 7, 2022 · Congressman from Virginia. Howard W. Smith was born February 2, 1883 in Broad Run, Virginia. He attended public schools and graduated from Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Virginia, in 1901.
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