Frederick Cleveland Smith

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Frederick Cleveland Smith (July 29, 1884–July 16, 1956) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.

Frederick C. Smith was born in Shanesville, Ohio. He graduated in osteopathic medicine at Kirksville, Missouri, and practiced there for several years. He went abroad and continued his study of medicine in Frankfurt, Germany, and in Vienna, Austria. In 1917 was licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Ohio and commenced practice at Marion, Ohio. He was mayor of Marion, Ohio, from January 1936 until January 1, 1939, when he resigned.

Smith was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1950. He resumed his medical profession and died in Marion, Ohio, on July 16, 1956. Interment in Marion Cemetery.

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• Frederick Cleveland Smith at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Thomas B. Fletcher

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th congressional district 1939 - 1951

Succeeded by Jackson E. Betts