Dates

• Existence: 1903 - 1999

Biography

Frank Leo Smith was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903. He attended Columbia University (now the University of Portland); Gozanga University in Spokane, Washington; and Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C. He earned his law degree in 1928, and joined a law firm in Portland in 1929. He met Josephine Gleason after returning to Portland, and they were married in 1932; she died in 1960. Smith was elected as a Democrat to represent Multnomah County in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1939 to 1944. He left the Legislature to continue in private law practice, and later also worked as a lobbyist for the Oregon State Employees Association, helping to establish the Public Employees Retirement System. He also lobbied for the University of Portland and the Archdiocese of Portland. In 1957, he was appointed to replace disgraced Multnomah County district attorney William Langley, who was removed from office. He left that office in 1958. In 1960, he and Dorothy McMahon were married; she died in 1980. In 1995, he and Frances Ritz Donnerberg were married. He died in 1999.

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