Hoke Smith was an American attorney, newspaper owner and politician from Georgia who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1893 to 1896, as Governor of Georgia from 1907 to 1909 and again in 1911, and as a United States Senator from 1911 to 1921. A leader of the progressive movement in the American South, he chaired the Senate Committee on Education and Labor and, in that role, introduced and guided through the Senate the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, co-authored with Representative Asbury Francis Lever of South Carolina. The act established the Cooperative Extension Service, a nationwide system of outreach through land grant universities that carried advances in agricultural practice and home economics directly to rural Americans, and it remains the legal basis of the extension system in the United States today.
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Defining ContributionSmith was a co-sponsor of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, introduced in the United States Senate by Smith and Representative Asbury Lever, establishing the United States cooperative agricultural extension system connecting land-grant universities to farm communities. 2 In the Other Atlases
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1. Hoke Smith (Wikipedia)
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Michael Hoke Smith (September 2, 1855, November 27, 1931) was an American attorney, politician, and newspaper owner who served as United States secretary of the interior (1893-1896), 58th governor of Georgia (1907-1909, 1911), and a United States senator (1911-1920) from Georgia.
2. Smith-Lever Act of 1914 (Wikipedia)
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Hoke Smith (D-GA), Asbury Lever (D-SC)
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