About Frank G. Smith
Lived 1872 – 1950 (aged 78). Frank G. Smith was an American judge and politician.
Frank Grigsby Smith (August 2, 1872 – October 27, 1950) was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1912 to 1949.
Born in Marion, Arkansas, Smith gained admission to the bar in Arkansas in 1893. He was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1894, when he was twenty-two years old, and re-elected in 1896. He was elected to the Arkansas Senate in 1902 and 1904, and to the Arkansas Second Judicial Circuit in 1906. Smith won the election, and was re-elected to five subsequent eight-year terms, writing thousands of opinions during his tenure prior to his resignation in 1949.
Smith died in Marion at the age of 78.
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Arkansas Supreme Court Judge
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Frank G. Smith was born on 2 August 1872 in Marion.
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Frank G. Smith died on 27 October 1950.
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Frank G. Smith was a judge and politician.
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Frank G. Smith was American.
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