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Smith, David Highbaugh

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1854, in Hart county, Ky. He has been practicing law since 1876, and was elected county attorney for Larue county in 1878, for the term of four years.

He was elected superintendent of common schools for Larue county in 1878. In 1881 he was elected to represent Larue county in the house of representatives of the general assembly for two years, and in 1885 was elected to the state senate for the term of four years, and re-elected in 1889. At the first meeting of the senate he elected for the term of two years, at the end of which term he was again elected for a second term of two years, and was president of the senate. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. was