Howard Alexander Smith

Howard Alexander Smith (January 30, 1880-October 27, 1966) was a United States Senator from New Jersey. He was the uncle of Peter Hoyt Dominick, also a United States Senator from Colorado.

Born in New York City; attended the Cutler School in New York City; graduated from Princeton University in 1901 and from the law department of Columbia University in 1904; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City; moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1905 and continued the practice of law until 1917; during the First World War served in the United States Food Administration in Colorado and Washington, D.C.; member of postwar relief organizations in 1918; moved to Princeton, New Jersey in 1919 and served as executive secretary of Princeton University until 1927; lecturer in the department of politics at Princeton University 1927-1930; resumed the practice of law in New York City 1932-1941; Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee 1941-1943; member of the Republican National Committee 1942-1943; elected on November 7, 1944, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1947, caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour; reelected in 1946 and 1952 and served from December 7, 1944, to January 3, 1959; was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; chairman of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Eighty-third United States Congress); special consultant on foreign affairs to the US Secretary of State 1959-1960; died in Princeton, N.J., ; interment in Princeton Cemetery.

United States Senate
Preceded by Arthur Walsh	United States Senator (Class 1) from New Jersey 1944–1959 Served alongside: Albert W. Hawkes, Robert C. Hendrickson, Clifford P. Case	Succeeded by Harrison A. Williams
Party political offices
Preceded by Clayton E. Freeman	Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee 1941–1943	Succeeded by Lloyd B. Marsh
Preceded by W. Warren Barbour	Republican Nominee for the U.S. Senate (Class 1) from New Jersey 1944, 1946, 1952	Succeeded by Robert W. Kean

v • d • e United States Senators from New Jersey

Class 1: Elmer • Rutherfurd • Davenport • Schureman • Ogden • Condit • Lambert • Wilson • Southard • McIlvaine • Bateman • Dickerson • Southard • W. Dayton • R. Stockton • Thomson • Field • J. Wall • Wright • F. T. Frelinghuysen • J. Stockton • Randolph • Sewell • Blodgett • J. Smith • J. Kean • Martine • J. Frelinghuysen • Edwards • H. Kean • Moore • Milton • Barbour • Walsh • H. Smith • Williams • Brady • Lautenberg • Corzine • Menendez Class 2: Paterson • Dickinson • F. Frelinghuysen • Richard Stockton • J. Dayton • Kitchell • Condit • Dickerson • T. Frelinghuysen • G. Wall • Miller • Wright • Ten Eyck • J. Stockton • Catell • F. T. Frelinghuysen • McPherson • Sewell • Dryden • Briggs • Hughes • Baird • Edge • Baird, Jr. • Morrow • Barbour • Smathers • Hawkes • Hendrickson • Case • Bradley • Torricelli • Lautenberg

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