Political Career
A Republican, Smith served as a Colonel in the Vermont Militia and was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1891 to 1892, serving as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. In 1892 he declined the Republican nomination for Vermont State Senator from Franklin County, and in 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention.
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