Frank Ellis Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrank Ellis Smith
American politician
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1918
Place of Birth: Leflore County, Mississippi, United States
Date of Death: 02-Aug-1997
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Frank Ellis Smith
- Frank Ellis Smith (February 21, 1918 – August 2, 1997) was a U.S.
- Representative from Mississippi. Born in Sidon, Mississippi, Smith attended the public schools of Sidon and Greenwood, Mississippi.
- He graduated from Sunflower Junior College, Moorhead, Mississippi, in 1936, and from the University of Mississippi in 1941, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
- He entered the United States Army as a private on February 9, 1942. He was a graduate of Field Artillery Officers Candidate School and served in Europe as a captain with the Two Hundred and Forty-third Field Artillery Battalion, Third Army.
- He was discharged to the Reserves as a major of Field Artillery on February 13, 1946. He was managing editor of the Greenwood Morning Call in 1946 and 1947, and a student at American University, Washington, D.C., in 1946.
- He was a legislative assistant to United States Senator John Stennis from 1947 to 1949, and served as a member of the state senate from 1948 to 1950. Smith was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1951, until his resignation November 14, 1962. He was unsuccessful for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress. Smith worked passionately for racial reconciliation.
- In his book "Congressman From Mississippi" (1964) he detailed his non-race-based politics.
- Despite this, he was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v.
- Board of Education. Smith served as member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority from November 14, 1962 to May 18, 1972.
- He ran third in a 1972 congressional primary in seeking reelection to the U.S.
- House and missed the runoff.
- He served as associate director of the Illinois State Board of Higher Education from 1973 to 1974; was a visiting professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1977 to 1979; and special assistant to Governor William Winter of Mississippi from 1980 to 1983.
- Smith was elected life fellow of the Southern Regional Council in 1984. He died in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 2, 1997.
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