Lyndon A. Smith

Lyndon Ambrose Smith (July 15, 1854 – March 5, 1918) was an American educator, lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 14th attorney general of Minnesota and the 15th lieutenant governor of Minnesota.

Life and career Smith was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire in 1854. His father Ambrose Smith was a clergyman and congregational pastor; his mother Cynthia Maria Egerton was a descendant of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth colony governor William Bradford. Smith attended Dartmouth College and served as the superintendent of schools in Norwich, Vermont while in school. He graduated as valedictorian in 1880. He later worked with the National Commissioner of Education and as the superintendent of the World Cotton Centennial's educational department. He also earned a law degree at Georgetown University Law Center.

In 1885, Smith moved to Minnesota, settling in Montevideo, Minnesota and establishing a law practice. In 1886, he married Dora Rogers, a teacher originally from Maine. Together they had a daughter Charlotte (b. 1888).

Smith died while in office on March 5, 1918. He is buried in Orchard Grove Cemetery in Kittery, Maine.

Electoral history 1912 Race for Attorney General (Republican Primary) Lyndon A. Smith 84,816 Thomas Fraser 56,137 1912 Race for Attorney General (General Election) Lyndon A. Smith (Republican) 166,950 William F. Donohue (Democrat) 83,997 J. H. Morse (Prohibition) 27,140 1914 Race for Attorney General (Republican Primary) Lyndon A. Smith 104,653 James Manahan 76,110 1914 Race for Attorney General (General Election) Lyndon A. Smith (Republican) 195,372 Neil M. Cronin (Democrat) 94,025 August V. Rieke (Progressive) 16,736 1916 Race for Attorney General (General Election) Lyndon A. Smith (Republican) 263,285 (unopposed)