William Orlando Smith (June 13, 1859 – May 12, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.

William Orlando Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 27th district
In office
March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1907
Preceded byJoseph Horace Shull
Succeeded byJoseph Grant Beale
Personal details
Born(1859-06-13)June 13, 1859
Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania
DiedMay 12, 1932(1932-05-12) (aged 72)
Cleveland, Ohio
Political partyRepublican

Biography

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Smith was born in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania on June 13, 1859.[1][2] He learned the printing trade, and worked as publisher of the Reynoldsville Herald from 1876 to 1879.[2]

He worked in the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., from 1879 to 1884.[1] He returned to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in 1884 and successively edited the Punxsutawney Tribune and the Punxsutawney Spirit.[1]

He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1889 to 1898.[1] He worked as editor of the Bradford Daily Era in Bradford, Pennsylvania in 1891.[1] He purchased a half interest in the Punxsutawney Spirit in January 1892.[2]

Smith was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (1903 to 1907).[3] He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906. After his time in Congress, he resumed his newspaper interests in Punxsutawney.[3]

He died in Cleveland, Ohio on May 12, 1932.[1] Interment was at Circle Hill Cemetery in Punxsutawney.[1]

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Newspapers.com

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  • "Punxs'y Publisher Buried Last Sunday". The Jeffersonian-Democrat. Brookville, PA. May 19, 1932 – via Newspapers.com.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 27th congressional district

1903 - 1907
Succeeded by

  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress