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Howard Alexander Smith ( January 30 , 1880 - October 27 , 1966 ) was a United States Senator from New Jersey . He was the uncle of Peter Hoyt Dominick , also a United States Senator from Colorado . Born in New York City ; attended the Cutler School in New York City; graduated from Princeton University in 1901 and from the law department of Columbia University in 1904 ; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City; moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1905 and continued the practice of law until 1917 ; during the First World War served in the United States Food Administration in Colorado and Washington, D.C. ; member of postwar relief organizations in 1918 ; moved to Princeton, New Jersey in 1919 and served as executive secretary of Princeton University until 1927 ; lecturer in the department of politics at Princeton University 1927- 1930 ; resumed the practice of law in New York City 1932 - 1941 ; member of the Republican National Committee 1942 - 1943 ; elected on November 7 , 1944 , as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3 , 1947 , caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour ; reelected in 1946 and 1952 and served from December 7 , 1944 , to January 3 , 1959 ; was not a candidate for renomination in 1958 ; chairman, Committee On Labor And Public Welfare ( Eighty-third United States Congress ); special consultant on foreign affairs to the US Secretary Of State 1959- 1960 ; died in Princeton, N.J., ; interment in Princeton Cemetery.
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