Gomer Griffith Smith (July 11, 1896 - May 26, 1953) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Born on a farm near Kansas City, Missouri, Smith attended the common and high schools of Missouri. He was graduated from Rockingham Academy, Kansas City, Missouri, in 1915. He taught in a country school near Excelsior Springs, Missouri from 1916 to 1918. He studied law. He was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1920, to the Oklahoma bar in 1922, and commenced practice in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Smith was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert P. Hill and served from December 10, 1937, to January 3, 1939. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1938, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator. He resumed the practice of law in Oklahoma City, where he died May 26, 1953. He was interred in Rose Hill Mausoleum.
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