M. Hoke Smith
Michael Hoke Smith was an American politician and newspaper owner who served as United States Secretary of the Interior , 58th Governor of Georgia , and a United States Senator from Georgia.
Smith was born in Newton, North Carolina, and moved to Georgia in 1872 with his parents. He attended Pleasant Retreat Academy and was primarily educated by his father, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His uncle was Civil War General Robert Hoke. Smith passed the bar examination in 1873 and became a lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia. He maintained a small office in the James building downtown. His practice began to grow when he began to argue injury suits. As his practice grew, he brought in his brother Burton in 1882, also excellent in front of juries, and they worked together for overyears. Their main clients were the many railroad workers injured on the job threequarters of the cases they took involved personal injury and they won the bulk of them.
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