Smith, William Alden, 1859-1932

LC control no.	no 98099507
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Personal name heading	Smith, William Alden, 1859-1932 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1859-05-12
Death date	1932-10-11
Place of birth	Dowagiac (Mich.)
Place of death	Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate
Profession or occupation	Legislator
Found in	The Titanic disaster hearings, c1998: p. xi (Senator William Alden Smith, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on the Titanic "Disaster") OCLC, 7/1/98: (hdg.: Smith, William Alden, 1859-1932; Smith, William Alden ; usage: William Alden Smith) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress online, viewed Jan. 3, 2017: (SMITH, William Alden, a Representative and a Senator from Michigan; born in Dowagiac, Cass County, Mich., May 12, 1859; attended the common schools; moved with his parents to Grand Rapids in 1872; appointed a page in the Michigan house of representatives in 1875; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Grand Rapids in 1883; general counsel of the Chicago-West Michigan Railway and the Detroit-Lansing Northern Railroad; assistant secretary of the Michigan State senate in 1883; State game warden 1887-1891; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his resignation, effective February 9, 1907, having been elected Senator; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses); elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on January 15, 1907, for the term beginning March 4, 1907; subsequently elected on February 6, 1907, to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1907, caused by the death of Russell A. Alger; reelected in 1913, and served from February 9, 1907, to March 3, 1919; was not a candidate for renomination in 1918; chairman, Committee on Canadian Relations (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Territories (Sixty-second Congress), Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); constructed a railroad in Michigan in 1898 and became owner of the Lowell-Hastings Railroad in 1900; owner and publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald in 1906; chairman of the board of directors of a transit company operating a line of steamboats from Chicago to various Lake Michigan ports; died in Grand Rapids, Mich., on October 11, 1932; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery)