Lamar S. Smith (R)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Texas (21)
- Birth Date: Nov. 19, 1947
- Occupation: Attorney
- Religion: Christian Scientist
- Web site: http://www.lamarsmith.house.gov/
Education
- Southern Methodist University, JD
- Yale University, BA
Lamar Smith was born in San Antonio, where he lives. He graduated from Texas Military Institute in San Antonio in 1965. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1969 at Yale University and a law degree in 1975 at Southern Methodist University School of Law.
Smith worked as a management intern at the Small Business Administration in Washington, 1969-70. He then worked as a business writer for the Christian Science Monitor until 1972. He practiced law and was a partner in a ranch.
Smith was elected chairman of the Bexar County Republican Party in 1978. He was elected to the Texas House in 1981, and was elected a Bexar County commissioner in 1982 and re-elected in 1984.
Smith was first elected to the U.S. House in 1986.
Smith, at the time a widower, married Beth Schaefer in 1992. He has two children from his first marriage.
