Albert Lee Smith Jr

A Representative from Alabama; born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., August 31, 1931; graduated from Ramsay High School, Birmingham, Ala., 1949; B.S., Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., 1954; United States Navy, 1954-1956; insurance agent; delegate, Republican National Conventions, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1984; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh Congress (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1984; member of the Federal Council on the Aging, Washington, D.C., 1985; died on August 12, 1997, in Birmingham, Ala.; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.