Frederick Cleveland Smith

Frederick Cleveland Smith (1884 to 1956) was an American physician who also had a long career in politics. Born in Shanesville, Ohio, he studied osteopathic medicine in Kirksville, Missouri, practiced there for several years, and then continued his medical studies in Frankfurt, Germany, and Vienna, Austria. He was licensed to practice medicine and surgery in Ohio in 1917 and opened a practice in Marion. He founded the Frederick C. Smith Clinic in Marion, which brought together doctors in several fields so that patients benefited from each doctor's specialty, and the clinic still bears his name. He served as mayor of Marion from January 1936 until he resigned on January 1, 1939, and was then elected as a Republican to six terms in the United States House of Representatives from Ohio, serving from 1939 to 1951. After leaving Congress he resumed his medical profession, and he died in Marion in 1956.