Thomas S. Smith (politician)

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tom Smith's legislative web page". Archived from the original on November 8, 2002. Retrieved 2002-11-08., New Jersey Legislature. Accessed April 23, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "Thomas S. Smith, N.J.'s only black GOP legislator". Associated Press in The Record . September 28, 2002. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved 2011-09-30. Assemblyman Thomas S. Smith, the state's only black Republican legislator, died Thursday. At 84, he was the oldest member of the assembly. A cause of death was not immediately available. In April, Mr. Smith announced he would not run for a seventh term in November 2003. He said he planned to finish his two-year term and retire, ending 12 years as an assemblyman representing the district that includes Asbury Park. ...
  3. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 2001, p. 259. E. J. Mullin, 2001. "Thomas S. Smith, Rep., Asbury Park - Assemblyman Smith was born Dec. 14, 1917, in Bloomfield. He is a graduate of Asbury Park High School. He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., from 1937 to 1939."
  4. Shields, Nancy (July 2, 1989). "Asbury Park gets new mayor, Council". Asbury Park Press .
  5. "Trenton Roundup", Newark Star-Ledger , October 29, 2002. Accessed August 9, 2007. "Sean T. Kean, a Monmouth County Republican Party activist from Wall Township, was sworn in yesterday as an assemblyman from the 11th District. Kean, 39, replaces Assemblyman Thomas S. Smith, who died Sept. 26 at age 84."
Thomas S. Smith
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Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
from the 11th district
In office
January 14, 1992 September 26, 2002
Servingwith Steve Corodemus