Frank Smith

Frank Smith (c. 1849 – February 13, 1921) was an American dentist and Republican politician from Madison, Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing central Dane County during the 1909 session.

Biography Frank Smith was born in Ripley, Tennessee, in 1849. At age 17, just after the conclusion of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the United States Army and served a three-year term of enlistment. After his honorable discharge, he purchased a farm in Green County, Wisconsin. He remained on the farm for only a few years, then spent four years working as a traveling salesman. Beginning in the late 1870s, he worked for nine years as an engineer for the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin.

He then moved to Chicago, where he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, graduating in 1894. He practiced for several years as a dentist in Chicago before returning to Madison in 1901.

Smith died at his home in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, on February 3, 1921, after suffering a year of illness.

Electoral history Wisconsin Assembly (1908, 1910)