H. Allen Smith was a Republican

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 representative

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 from California

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.

Born in Dixon

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, Lee County, Illinois, October 8, 1909, (Ronald Reagan

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's boyhood hometown) Smith was an F.B.I. agent and later a member of the California State Assembly

California State Assembly

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 from 1949 to 1956, a Presidential Elector for California in 1956

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, and a representative from California's 20th congressional district

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 from 1957 to 1973. He was also a delegate from California to the Republican National Convention

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 in 1960. Member, Freemasons; Shriners. He died in Glendale

Glendale, California

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on June 4, 1998, and is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.