Biography

12/09/1891 - 01/30/1963

SMILEY, Joseph Russell, a Representative from Fayette County; born, December 9, 1891 in Georges Township, Fayette County, Pa.; graduated, Uniontown High School; served, Company E, 18th Division, Three Hundred Nineteenth Infantry, United States Army (1918-1919, World War I); teacher (5 years); lawyer (1915-1963); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1920; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1922); died, January 30, 1963 in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; interred, Sylvan Heights Cemetery, Oliver, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.