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SMITH, Larkin I.
1944–1989
Concise Biography
SMITH, Larkin I., 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.
View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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University of Oklahoma
The Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, Department of Communication
Norman, OK
Videocassette:
1988, 1 commercial on 1 videocassette.
The commercial was used during Larkin Smith's campaign for the 1988 U.S. congressional election in District 5 of Mississippi, Republican Party.
University of Southern Mississippi
McCain Library and Archives
Hattiesburg, MS
Papers:
ca. 1988-1999, 64 cubic feet.
The papers of former Congressman Larkin Smith are currently unprocessed and not available to researchers.
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