George Ross Smith
U.S. Congressperson
1864 – 1952
Who was George Ross Smith?
George Ross Smith was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota; attended the public schools and Sauk Centre Academy; was graduated from the law school of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Minneapolis; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1903; judge of the probate court of Hennepin County, Minnesota, 1907 – 1913; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law and taught law classes at Minneapolis-Minnesota Law School; died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 7, 1952; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery.
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