Bob Smith
Political Figure
New Hampshire's Bob Smith was a high school teacher and realtor before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1985. A Republican, he moved up to the senate in 1990 and was reelected in 1996. A conservative who was sometimes at odds with the Republican party (the GOP), he announced in February of 1999 that he would run for president in the 2000 election. Smith quit the GOP that summer to run as an independent, then dropped out of the race in October of 1999. Smith lost his senate seat in 2002 and moved to Florida, where he took up the real estate business again. In late 2003 he flirted with a run for the senate from Florida. Since then he has served as the president of Florida's Everglades Foundation, a conservation group.Smith appears with Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer in our loop Candidates 2000.
Four Good Links
Bob Smith
Brief profile from when he tossed his hat into the ring for the presidency
Senator Bob Smith
2002 radio interview from New Hampshire Public Radio
Senator Bob Smith
His brief official biography from the United States Congress
Everglades Foundation
Official site of the Florida conservation group he heads
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Best Known As
New Hampshire's conservative senator in the '90s
