Neal Edward Smith

A Representative from Iowa. Born in Hedrick, Keokuk County, Iowa, March 23, 1920. Attended the public schools of Packwood, Iowa. Attended Missouri University College of Liberal Arts, 1945-1946. Attended Syracuse University Schools of Public and Business Administration, 1946-1948. Graduated from Drake University Law School in 1950. United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945. Admitted to the Iowa bar in 1950. Lawyer, private practice. Farmer. Assistant county attorney for Polk County, Iowa, 1951-1952. National president, Young Democratic Clubs of America, 1953-1955. Chairman, Polk County, Iowa, Welfare Board, 1953-1954. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1995). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth Congress in 1994. Chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Ninety-third Congress), Committee on Small Business (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses). Died on November 2, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. Interment at Prairie Center Cemetery, Packwood, Iowa.