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Smith was born in Newton, North Carolina, on September 2, 1855, to Hildreth H. Smith, president of Catawba College, and Mary Brent Hoke. [2] When Smith was 2 years old, his father accepted a position on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, and moved the family to Chapel Hill.
There have officially been 83 governors of the State of Georgia, including 11 who served more than one distinct term (John Houstoun, George Walton, Edward Telfair, George Mathews, Jared Irwin, David Brydie Mitchell, George Rockingham Gilmer, M. Hoke Smith, Joseph Mackey Brown, John M. Slaton and Eugene Talmadge, with Herman Talmadge serving two de facto distinct terms).
On election day, 3 October 1906, Democratic nominee Hoke Smith won the election with a margin of 94,075 votes against his opponent Socialist Party nominee J. B. Osburn, thereby holding Democratic control over the office of Governor. Smith was sworn in as the 58th Governor of Georgia on 29 June 1907. [2]
The Democratic primary election was held in 1910. Former Governor of Georgia Hoke Smith received a majority of the votes (51.10%), and was thus elected as the nominee for the general election over incumbent Governor Joseph Mackey Brown, who instead decided to run as an Independent.
Hoke Smith (D) 1908 Bryan/ Kern (D) 1909 184D Joseph Mackey Brown (D) 1910 Hewlett A. Hall: Marion L. Brittain (D) [y] [ad] Joseph M. Terrell (D) 1911 43D, 1R 183D, 1R Hoke Smith (D) [j] Thomas S. Felder: John M. Slaton (D) [k] Hoke Smith (D) 1912 Joseph Mackey Brown (D) Wilson/ Marshall (D) James J. Conner (D) [y] 1913 John M. Slaton (D) James ...
But both major candidates played on racial tensions during their campaigning for the gubernatorial election of 1906, in which M. Hoke Smith and Clark Howell competed for the Democratic primary nomination. Smith had explicitly "campaigned on a platform to disenfranchise black voters in Georgia." [14] Howell was also looking to exclude them from ...
Hoke Smith: 19 Appointed to begin the term. Re-elected in 1913, the first election by popular vote. [7] Died. 22 63rd: Vacant: Feb 14, 1914 – ...
Hoke L. Smith (May 7, 1931 – March 27, 2004) was the tenth president of Towson University. Early in Smith's administration, he focused on Towson's status as a "comprehensive university." One of the first changes was the a new governance structure and the establishment of six colleges.