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Smith (HOKE a United States Senator)

HOKE, a United States Senator from Georgia, born at Newton, N. C., in 1855. He was privately educated and removed with his parents to Georgia in 1872. In the following year he was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Atlanta until 1909, except while serving as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Cleveland, from 1893 to 1896.

He was governor of Georgia from 1907 to 1909, and was re-elected for the term 1911 to 1913. He resigned as governor to enter the United States Senate, having been elected to fill the unexpired term of Alexander S. Clay, deceased. He was reelected for the term of 1915 to 1921, but was defeated by Thomas E. Watson in 1920.

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