Former Congressman Bob Smith Passes At 89

Former Congressman Bob Smith, who represented the Second Congressional District for more than a decade, died in Medford on Monday.  He was 89.  Smith served as congressman for the district that encompasses eastern and central Oregon, as well as part of southern Oregon.  He served for 12 years, from 1983 to 1995.  After a brief retirement, he ran again in 1996 and served one more term after his successor, Wes Cooley, resigned after admitting to falsifying his military service record.  The Mail Tribune reports Smith’s cause of death was not immediately released, and family could not be immediately reached.  Congressman Greg Walden, a fellow Republican who succeeded Smith in the Second District, said he remembered meeting Smith for the first time when he was 13 and visiting the Capitol.  In a written statement Walden called Smith “a one-of-a-kind rancher, legislator and advocate for the eastern Oregon way of life.”  

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