Larkin Smith

A Representative from Mississippi. Born in Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss. , June 26, 1944. Attended Poplarville Elementary School. Graduated, Poplarville High School, 1962. Chief deputy sheriff, Pearl River County sheriff's department, 1966-1972. Chief investigator, Harrison County sheriff's department, 1971-1977. B. A. , William Carey College, 1979. Chief of police, Gulfport, Miss. , August 1977-December 1983. Sheriff of Harrison County, Miss. , January 1, 1984, to January 1, 1989. Elected as a Republican to the One Hundred First Congress and served from January 3, 1989, until his death August 13, 1989, in a private aircraft crash in the DeSoto National Forest, Miss. , while en route from Hattiesburg to Gulfport, Miss.