Representative Clinton DeWitt Smith View All Years

HONORABLE CLINTON D. SMITH

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare a resolution commemorating the life, character and public services of the Honorable Clinton D. Smith, a former member of the General Assembly of Iowa, begs leave to submit the following:

Clinton D. Smith, for seventy-two years a resident of Lucas county, Iowa, passed away at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines on September 10, 1936, at the age of seventy-nine years.

Clinton DeWitt Smith, son of Jacob and Emmaline Vogel Smith was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, on August 5, 1857. In 1862 he came with his parents in a covered wagon to Blakesburg, Wapello county, Iowa, where they lived two years, and in 1864 came to Washington township, Lucas County, Iowa, where he obtained his common school education, having attended the Hawkeye District during its first term. Later he served for forty-five continuous years to the time of his death, as treasurer of this same school.

When he grew to manhood, he, in partnership with his brother, Eugene, operated a farm five miles south of Russell, for a number of years. Afterward he moved to the farm home east of Russell, where he resided until his death.

Mr. Smith was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Russell, and served on the official board for a number of years. He was always conscientious when given a task to do.

Mr. Smith took a keen interest in public and civic affairs and was liberal in his views. In 1922 he was elected to represent Lucas county in the Fortieth and Fortieth Extra General Assemblies and was long a leader in southern Iowa democratic circles. He was a pioneer advocate of good roads. As a legislator he was influential in the organization of the farm bloc.

For twenty-eight years he was interested in the banking business, having been a stockholder and officer in the Russell State Bank since its beginning, and serving as president at the time of his death.

Therefore Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Forty-seventh General Assembly of the state of Iowa, in Regular Session, That the foregoing memorial be adopted as its appreciation of the life and character and public service of the Honorable Clinton D. Smith.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

LEO A. HOEGH,

C. E. LOOKINGBILL,

J. P. GALLAGHER,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 19, 1937.