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Gordon H. Smith

Gordon Harold Smith(born May 25, 1952) is an American politician, businessman, and academic administrator who served as aUnited States Senatorfrom the state ofOregon.ARepublican,he served two terms in the Senate from 1997 to 2009. On September 18, 2009, he was appointed president of theNational Association of Broadcasters(NAB). As of 2024, he is the lastRepublicanto represent Oregon in the U.S. Senate.

Gordon Smith
Official portrait of Gordon Smith
United States Senator
fromOregon
In office
January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2009
Preceded byMark Hatfield
Succeeded byJeff Merkley
Chair of theSenate Aging Committee
In office
January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007
Preceded byLarry Craig
Succeeded byHerb Kohl
President of the Oregon Senate
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997
Preceded byBill Bradbury
Succeeded byBrady Adams
Member of theOregon Senate
from the29thdistrict
In office
January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1997
Preceded byScott Duff
Succeeded byDavid Nelson
Personal details
Born
Gordon Harold Smith

(1952-05-25)May 25, 1952(age 72)
Pendleton, Oregon,U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseSharon Smith
Children3
RelativesMilan Smith(brother)
Tom Udall(cousin)
Mark Udall(cousin)
EducationBrigham Young University(BA)
Southwestern Law School(JD)
Gordon H. Smith's voice
Gordon H. Smith onvoting rights for African Americans
Recorded July 20, 2006

Early life and family

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Smith was born inPendleton, Oregon,to Jessica (Udall) and Milan Dale Smith on May 25, 1952.[1]Smith's family moved toBethesda, Marylandduring his childhood, when his father became an AssistantUnited States Secretary of Agriculture.He was involved with theBoy Scouts of Americaand earned the rank ofEagle Scout.[2]Smith is a member ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints(LDS Church). After graduating from high school, Smith served for two years as an LDS ChurchmissionaryinNew Zealand.

Smith then went to college atBrigham Young University,received hisJuris DoctorfromSouthwestern University School of Law,and became an attorney inNew MexicoandArizona.He moved back to Oregon in the 1980s to become director of the family ownedSmith Frozen Foodscompany inWeston, Oregon.[3]

Smith and his wife, Sharon,adoptedthree children in the 1980s, including two sons (Morgan and Garrett) and a daughter (Brittany). On September 8, 2003, Garrett, then a 21-year-old college student majoring in culinary arts, died bysuicide.Smith wrote a book entitledRemembering Garrett, One Family’s Battle with a Child’s Depression.[4]In 2004, PresidentGeorge W. Bushsigned the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, authorizing $82 million for suicide-prevention and awareness programs at colleges.[5]

Smith is also a member of theUdallpolitical family.His mother was a cousin of the late RepresentativesMo Udall(D-AZ) andStewart Udall(D-AZ), and Smith is a second cousin of SenatorsMark Udall(D-CO) andTom Udall(D-NM). He is adouble second cousinof both of them, as their great-grandparents were a pair of brothers and a pair of sisters who married. All three of them were candidates for Senate in the 2008 elections. Smith was the only Republican and incumbent senator of the group, and the only one of the three to lose his electoral bid. Smith's brother,Milan Dale Smith, Jr.,is a federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006. Smith is a member of the board of directors of theInternational Republican Institute.[6]In 2010, another second cousin, fellow RepublicanMike Leeof Utah, was elected to the Senate.[7]

On March 31, 2012, Smith wascalledas anarea seventyin the LDS Church.[8]He was released from this assignment in August 2022.[9]

Early political career

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Smith entered politics with his election to theOregon State Senatein 1992, and became president of that body in 1995. Later in 1995, he ran in aspecial electionfor a Senate seat vacated by the resignation ofBob Packwood,but was narrowly defeated in the January 1996 special election by then-CongressmanRon Wyden.Smith carried all but eight counties, but could not overcome an 89,000-vote deficit inMultnomah County,home to Portland–far exceeding the overall margin of 18,200 votes.

U.S. Senate

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Smith during his first term in the Senate
Smith watches asPresidentGeorge W. Bushsigns the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act on October 21, 2004

Elections

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United States SenatorMark Hatfield,a fellow Republican, announced his retirement later in 1996. Smith became the first person to run for the Senate twice in one year. This time he won, easily defeatingLon Mabon(whose organization, theOregon Citizens Alliance,had previously endorsed Smith over Wyden) in the Republican primary[10]and DemocratTom Bruggerein the general election by a close margin. Before his election, Oregon had not elected a senator from the eastern part of the state since 1938.

Smith wasre-electedin 2002, defeatingOregon Secretary of StateBill Bradburyby 57% to 39%.

Smith's approval rating was 52 percent, with 38 percent disapproving.[11]

Political positions

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In 1996 Smith was endorsed by the conservative political activist group theOregon Citizens Alliancein his race against Wyden. After losing that initial race for Packwood's seat, Smith then renounced the OCA endorsement and won in his subsequent race for the seat being vacated by Senator Hatfield.

In October 1999, Smith was one of four Republicans to vote in favor of theComprehensive Test Ban Treaty.The treaty was designed to ban underground nuclear testing and was the first major international security pact to be defeated in the Senate since theTreaty of Versailles.[12][13]

Smith ispro-life,[14]and in 2003 he voted in favor of thePartial-Birth Abortion Ban Act,legislation that prohibits theintact dilation and extractionprocedure.

In 2006, he voted to pass another controversial bill, this time crossing party lines to vote for theStem Cell Research Enhancement Act.The measure, which would have expanded federal funding ofstem cell researchto cell lines extracted fromembryosdiscarded during fertility treatment, became the first bill to be vetoed by PresidentGeorge W. Bush.Smith is one of 19 Senate Republicans who voted for the measure.

In January 2006, Smith began circulating a draft of the Digital Content Protection Act of 2006.[15][16]The legislation would grant theFederal Communications Commissionthe authority to authorize a technology known as thebroadcast flag.This technology would enable the producers of television programming to ensure the programs cannot be recorded by viewers in their homes, for instance using adigital video recorderor onto recordableDVDs.

Conservatism

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Smith is often described as politically moderate, but has strong conservative credentials as well. In a 2007 web video, Smith refers to "the values that make us Republicans, that make us conservatives".[17]

Smith is a member of the moderateRepublican Main Street Partnership,and a February 2006National Journalcongressional rating placed Smith in the exact ideological center of the Senate.[18]

However, Smith is described as a moderate Republican byGovTrack.us,[19]and throughout 2006 Smith voted with Republican leaderBill Frist(TN) 82 percent of the time.[20]Based on five senate votes in 2006, theabortion rightsadvocacy groupNARALgave Smith a score of 15 percent on abortion rights (100 percent being a completelypro-choicescore.)[21]For votes cast in 2006, Smith received a 14 percent rating from theLeague of Conservation Voters(out of a possible 100 percent).[22]Smith's votes have run contrary to widespread public sentiment[clarification needed]on several issues, notablyminimum wage[23][24][25][26]and theOregon Death with Dignity Act.[27]

Smith was also a key advocate for embattled conservative Trent Lott's return to a leadership post within the Republican Party in 2006. Lott had resigned his position as Senate Republican Leader in 2002, following controversy surrounding his perceived support of Sen.Strom Thurmond's (R-SC)segregationistpolitics. After the party lost control of the Senate in November 2006, Republicans elected Lott to the post of Minority Whip (the second-highest Republican position in the Senate.) During the closed-door election, Sen.Judd Gregg(R-NH) nominated Lott for the position. Smith then seconded the nomination and delivered a supportive address before casting his vote.[28] Lott defeated Sen.Lamar Alexander(R-TN) in a 25 to 24 vote.[29]

War in Iraq

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In October 2002, Smith voted in favor of authorizing military force againstIraq,an important step in the run-up to theMarch 2003 invasion.[30]Smith was one of several Republican Senators for whom political concerns have clashed with party loyalty on the subject of thewar in Iraqnear an election year.[31]

In December 2006 Smith spoke out against the war for the first time, after having voted in support of it four years prior.[32]Smith said that to continue the current policy in Iraq "may even be criminal".[33]

Several weeks after stating his opposition to the occupation of Iraq, however, Smith declined to sign onto a bipartisan resolution to oppose Bush's plan toescalate troop levelsin Iraq by 21,500,[34]prompting questions about the sincerity of his opposition to the continued US military presence in Iraq.[35]Smith cited the controversial nature of the word "escalate" in defending his choice. The bill's sponsors have since changed the word to "increase." Smith expressed support for the bill, but subsequently voted to prevent it from being debated by the full Senate.

In March 2007, Smith was one of only two Republicans to vote for a resolution aimed at withdrawing most American combat troops from Iraq in 2008, the other beingChuck HagelofNebraska.The vote was 50 for to 48 against.[36]Smith said in July 2007 that he would vote for a bill authorizing a timeline in which to leave Iraq. He was one of three Republican senators, the other two being Hagel andOlympia SnoweofMaine,to support the Levin Amendment (S.AMDT.2085) to the 2008 Defense Authorization bill (H.R.1585) that would begin a withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.[37]Smith was willing to cross party lines in support of bills for withdrawing troops from Iraq.[38]

In a private meeting with LDS Church leaders in 2009, Smith said that he supported the Iraq War because he "felt the Lord’s hand in it".[39]He told the church leaders that he believed that the introduction of the "rule of law" would help the LDS Church spread into the Middle East.[39][40][41]

Gay rights

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Smith supported legislation expandinghate crimelaws to encompass crimes againstgays,and, with SenatorTed Kennedy,introduced such legislation in every Congress. As a result, he was one of a few Republican senators supported bygay rightsgroups in the United States, including theHuman Rights Campaign.Smith also stood up in each Congress to talk about a separate hate crime as an illustration of why improved hate crime legislation was necessary, and had additional crimes published in theCongressional Recordeach day that Congress was in session.[42][43]

Gay rights groups have expressed disappointment at Smith's support for theFederal Marriage Amendmentin 2004, which would definemarriageas between a man and a woman.[44]

Leading up to the2006 midterm elections,Smith joined Senate Democrats to introduce legislation that would guarantee homosexual employees of the federal governmentdomestic partnershipbenefits.[45]

Committee assignments

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Smith chaired theSpecial Committee on Aginguntil Democrats took control of the Senate in 2007.

Smith served on the following Senate committees:Commerce, Science and Transportation,Energy and Natural Resources,Finance,andIndian Affairs.

He was theRanking Memberof theSenate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade and Global Competitiveness.

Electoral history

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2002 election

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Main article:2002 United States Senate election in Oregon

The 2002 Oregon United States Senate election was held on November 5, 2002 and was the first time Smith ran for re-election as senator. Smith easily defeated underfundedDemocraticchallenger,Oregon Secretary of StateBill Bradburyin the general election. He carried all but one county in the state,Multnomah County,home to Portland.

2008 election

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Main article:2008 United States Senate election in Oregon

In Smith's second bid for re-election he faced State House SpeakerJeff Merkley.[46] Smith earned 40% favorable and 20% unfavorable ratings in a December 2007 poll. Smith's office characterized the relatively low numbers as a reflection on Congress in general; a spokesman forSteve Novick's campaign (Novick lost to Merkley in theprimary) suggested that the public was frustrated with elected officials and looking to outsiders to effect change, and Merkley's campaign highlighted Smith's shifts in position on the war in Iraq.[47] The result was too close to call for almost two days. Ultimately, Merkley was declared the winner by 49% to 46%, with 5% going to David Brownlow, a Constitution Party candidate. While Smith carried all but six counties, he could not overcome a 142,000-vote deficit in Multnomah County.

In 2008, Smith's double second cousins, DemocratsTomandMark Udall(see above), also ran in U.S. Senate elections, inNew MexicoandColoradorespectively, and both won their races.

Table

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Senate elections in Oregonresults: 1996 (special), 1996–2008 (general)[48][49]
Year Democrat Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct 3rd Party Party Votes Pct
1996 Ron Wyden 571,739 48% Gordon Smith 553,519 47% Karen E.Shilling American Independent 25,597 2% Gene Nanni Libertarian 15,698 1% Vickie Valdez Socialist 7,872 1% Lou Gold Pacific 7,225 1%
1996 Tom Bruggere 624,370 46% Gordon Smith 677,336 50% Brent Thompson Reform 20,381 1% Gary Kutcher Pacific 14,193 1% Paul Mohn Libertarian 12,697 1% Christopher Phelps Socialist 5,426 <1% *
2002 Bill Bradbury 501,898 40% Gordon Smith 712,287 56% Dan Fitzgerald Libertarian 29,979 2% Lon Mabon Constitution 21,703 2% *
2008 Jeff Merkley 864,392 49% Gordon Smith 805,159 46% David Brownlow Constitution 92,565 5% *

*Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 1996, Michael L. Hoyes of theNatural Law Partyreceived 4,425 votes and other minor candidates received 1,402 votes. In 2002, minor candidates received 1,354 votes. In 2008, minor candidates received 5,388 votes.

Post-Senate career

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In the aforementioned private meeting with LDS Church leaders in 2009, Smith shared information he said "may be classified" about Iran's nuclear program. (Smith's spokesman has since stated that none of the information shared was, in fact, classified.) Smith also mentioned instances in which he had pushed officials of various international governments to allow an increased LDS missionary presence in their countries.[41]

Smith was named as president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters on September 18, 2009 and began his tenure with the trade association on November 1, 2009. Since then, Smith has led the association's lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission regarding issues affecting the television and radio broadcast industry. These issues include voluntary incentive auctions of broadcast TV spectrum, efforts by record labels to institute a performance fee on local radio stations for music airplay, and retransmission consent rules. Broadcast industry executives have credited Smith's leadership with improving NAB's lobbying clout and influence.[50]In October 2012, Smith was named as one of Washington's top lobbyists byThe Hill.[51]He was namedRadio Ink‘s Radio Executive Of The Year in 2018.[52]

On March 31, 2012, Smith was called as an area seventy, an ecclesiastical leadership position, in the LDS Church.[53]

Smith has announced his retirement from the NAB, effective January 1, 2022. He will be replaced by NAB’s Chief Operating Officer, Curtis LeGeyt.[54]

See also

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References

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