Douglas Myles Smith (born December 11, 1946) is an American politician from

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

. Smith, a Republican, served in

Maine House of Representatives The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via p ...

from 1971 to 1977 and the Maine Senate from 2006 to 2010 from District 27, which included his residence of

Dover-Foxcroft Dover-Foxcroft is the largest town in and the seat of Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,422 at the 2020 census. The town is located near the geographic center of the state. History Dover-Foxcroft was originally tw ...

Piscataquis County Piscataquis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of the 2020 census, its population was 16,800, making it Maine's least-populous county. Its county seat is Dover-Foxcroft. The county was incorporated on March 23, 1838, ta ...

. He chose not to seek re-election in 2010 and was replaced by Republican

Douglas Thomas Douglas Thomas (born 1966) is an American scholar, researcher, and journalist. He is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he studies technology, communication, and culture. ...

. In 2010, Smith was rumored to have sought the position of Maine Attorney General which eventually went to William Schneider. Smith earned his B.A. at the

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universities, flagshi ...

and his J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. He has practiced law in Dover-Foxcroft for over 31 years.Senator Doug Smith - Maine Senate Republicans
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Foxcroft Academy Foxcroft Academy is a private preparatory high school located in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. Chartered by the Maine legislature in 1823, Foxcroft Academy was established just a few years after the incorporation of the town of F ...

and as a Piscataquis County Judge of Probate from 1979 to 2006. Douglas is a 1965 graduate of

and lives part-time in

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with his wife Cartha Palmer and two children.Douglas Smith's Biography - Vote Smart
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