Howard W. Smith

Howard W. Smith
Howard W. Smith
	Portrait of Smith, c. 1960s
Chair of the House Rules Committee
	In office; January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1967
Speaker	Sam Rayburn; John W. McCormack
Preceded by	Leo E. Allen
Succeeded by	William M. Colmer
Member of the; U.S. House of Representatives; from Virginia
	In office; March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1967
Preceded by	R. Walton Moore
Succeeded by	William L. Scott
Constituency	8th district (1931-1933); At-large (1933-1935); 8th district (1935-1967)
Judge of Virginia's 16th Judicial Court
	In office; 1929–1930
Head of Alexandria's Corporation Court
	In office; 1922–1928
Commonwealth's Attorney of Alexandria
	In office; 1918–1922
Personal details
Born	Howard Worth Smith; February 2, 1883; Broad Run, Virginia, U.S.
Died	October 3, 1976 (aged 93); Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Resting place	Little Georgetown Cemetery; Broad Run, Virginia, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Lillian Proctor (m. 1913⁠–⁠1919) d. flu pandemic; Ann Corcoran (m. 1923)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Virginia (LL.B.)
Profession	Attorney

Howard Worth Smith (February 2, 1883 – October 3, 1976) was an American politician. A Democratic U.S. Representative from Virginia, he was a leader of the informal but powerful conservative coalition.^[3]

Smith offered an amendment to insert "sex" after the word "religion" as a protected class of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Congressional Record shows Smith made serious arguments, voicing concerns that white women would suffer greater discrimination without a protection for gender.^[4] Reformers, who knew Smith was hostile to civil rights for blacks, assumed that he was doing so to defeat the whole bill.^[5]

The prohibition of sex discrimination was added on the floor by Smith. While Smith strongly opposed civil rights laws for blacks, he supported such laws for women. Smith's amendment passed by a vote of 168 to 133.^[6]^[7]^[8]

^ Ticer, Patsy; Saslaw, Richard L.; Ebbin, Adam; Moran, Brian; Van Landingham, Marian (February 13, 2004). "SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 186 On the death of Howard Worth Smith, Jr". Virginia General Assembly. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
^ Dierenfield, Bruce (April 7, 2011). "Smith, Howard Worth (1883–1976)". In Brendan Wolfe (ed.). Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
^ "Smith, Howard Worth (1883–1976)". www.encyclopediavirginia.org. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
^ Cite error: The named reference Gold was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Clinton Jacob Woods, "Strange Bedfellows: Congressman Howard W. Smith and the Inclusion of Sex Discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act," Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 1–32.
^ Freeman, Jo (March 1991). "How 'Sex' Got Into Title VII: Persistent Opportunism as a Maker of Public Policy". Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice. 9 (2): 163–184. online version.
^ Rosenberg, Rosalind (2008). Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century. pp. 187–188.
^ Frum, David (2000). How We Got Here: The '70s. New York, New York: Basic Books. pp. 245–246, 249. ISBN 0-465-04195-7.

[1] Ticer, Patsy; Saslaw, Richard L.; Ebbin, Adam; Moran, Brian; Van Landingham, Marian (February 13, 2004). "SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 186 On the death of Howard Worth Smith, Jr". Virginia General Assembly. Retrieved November 28, 2011.

[EncylopediaVirginia-2] Dierenfield, Bruce (April 7, 2011). "Smith, Howard Worth (1883–1976)". In Brendan Wolfe (ed.). Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved November 28, 2011.

[3] "Smith, Howard Worth (1883–1976)". www.encyclopediavirginia.org. Retrieved July 21, 2019.

[Gold-4] Cite error: The named reference Gold was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] Clinton Jacob Woods, "Strange Bedfellows: Congressman Howard W. Smith and the Inclusion of Sex Discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act," Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 1–32.

[Freeman-6] Freeman, Jo (March 1991). "How 'Sex' Got Into Title VII: Persistent Opportunism as a Maker of Public Policy". Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice. 9 (2): 163–184. online version.

[7] Rosenberg, Rosalind (2008). Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century. pp. 187–188.

['70s_245-8] Frum, David (2000). How We Got Here: The '70s. New York, New York: Basic Books. pp. 245–246, 249. ISBN 0-465-04195-7.

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Howard W. Smith
Portrait of Smith, c. 1960s

Chair of the House Rules Committee
In office January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1967
Speaker	Sam Rayburn John W. McCormack
Preceded by	Leo E. Allen
Succeeded by	William M. Colmer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia
In office March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1967
Preceded by	R. Walton Moore
Succeeded by	William L. Scott
Constituency	8th district (1931-1933) At-large (1933-1935) 8th district (1935-1967)
Judge of Virginia's 16th Judicial Court
In office 1929–1930
Head of Alexandria's Corporation Court
In office 1922–1928
Commonwealth's Attorney of Alexandria
In office 1918–1922

Personal details
Born	Howard Worth Smith (1883-02-02)February 2, 1883 Broad Run, Virginia, U.S.
Died	October 3, 1976(1976-10-03) (aged 93) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Resting place	Little Georgetown Cemetery Broad Run, Virginia, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Lillian Proctor (m. 1913⁠–⁠1919) d. flu pandemic Ann Corcoran (m. 1923)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Virginia (LL.B.)
Profession	Attorney
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