Tracey Smith (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Texas (12)
- Birth Date: June 23, 1948
- Web site: http://www.traceysmithgoestowashington.com
- E-mail address: campaign@traceysmithgoestowashington.com
Education
- Ohio State University, M.A.
- University of Texas, B.A.
Tracey Smith is a native of Fort Worth, where he now works as a commercial real estate broker. He earned a bachelor's in economics at University of Texas in 1970 and a master's in journalism at Ohio State University in 1974.
Smith started his career in journalism, working at a newspaper and then as a television news reporter, before going into the real estate business in 1984.
He had two unsuccessful bids for public office for a Fort Worth City Council seat in 1998 and for a Tarrant Regional Water District Board seat in 2006. Both were nonpartisan races. He also has served as a precinct chairman for the Democratic Party.
Smith is a widower and has two grown stepdaughters. He married again recently and now has two more stepchildren.
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