Glee Sidney Smith Jr. (April 29, 1921 – November 16, 2015) was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman.
Career
He was a member of the
Kansas Senate from 1957 to 1973 and was a
Republican; during his term he was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, and President pro tempore (1965–1973). He served on the
Larned, Kansas
Larned is a city in and the county seat of Pawnee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,769.
History
Larned was laid out in 1873. The first post office was established at Larned in 1872.
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Board of Education and was president of the board. Smith was involved with the banking and insurance businesses. Smith also served an appointment by President
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...
to the Board of the National Legal Services Corporation from 1975 to 1985.
Education
He received his bachelor's degree in journalism, in 1943 from the
University of Kansas and his law degree from the
University of Kansas School of Law
The University of Kansas School of Law is the law school of the University of Kansas, a public research university in Lawrence, Kansas. The University of Kansas Law School was founded in 1893, replacing the earlier Department of Law, which had exi ...
, in 1947; Smith was admitted to the Kansas Bar in 1947. He was also a veteran of the
United States Army Air Forces and
World War II. He was a member of the Kansas Bar Association.
Death
Smith died on November 16, 2015, in
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas River, Kansas and Waka ...
.
Glee S. Smith, Jr.-obituary
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References
1921 births
2015 deaths
People from Pawnee County, Kansas
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
University of Kansas alumni
University of Kansas School of Law alumni
Businesspeople from Kansas
Kansas lawyers
School board members in Kansas
Republican Party Kansas state senators
United States Army personnel of World War II
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American lawyers
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