1. Lamar Seeligson Smith was born on November 19,1947 and is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States House of Representatives for for 16 terms, a district including most of the wealthier sections of San Antonio and Austin, as well as some of the Texas Hill Country.
In November 2017, Lamar Smith announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term, and not seek re-election in 2018.
In 1969, Lamar Smith was hired as a management intern by the Small Business Administration in Washington, DC He was a business and financial writer for the Christian Science Monitor, was admitted to the Texas bar in 1975, and went into private practice in San Antonio with the firm of Maebius and Duncan, Inc.
In 1980, Lamar Smith was elected to the Texas House of Representatives representing Bexar County, the 57th District.
Lamar Smith's district was significantly altered in the 2003 Texas redistricting.
Lamar Smith faced five challengers in the 2012 general election on November 6,2012: Candace Duval, John-Henry Liberty, Fidel Castillo, Bill Stout, and Carlos Pena.
Lamar Smith won re-nomination to fifteenth House term in the Republican primary held on March 4,2014.
Lamar Smith's runner-up was Matt McCall was born on c 1963 and of San Antonio, with 22,596 votes.
Michael J Smith polled the remaining 3,772 votes.
In 2006, Lamar Smith voted for the Abortion Pain Bill, which would "ensure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child", and the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would "prohibit taking minors across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions".
Smith is a strong opponent of marijuana legalization; as chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Lamar blocked committee consideration of the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011, a bill to repeal the federal prohibition on marijuana and allow the states to set laws on cultivation, sales, use, and taxation.
In 2011 Lamar Smith had received $37,250 in campaign contributions from the Beer, Wine and Liquor Lobby, and $65,800 total between 2009 and 2011.
Lamar Smith received more than $133,000 from the Content Industry, including Industry groups and individual companies through mid-2011.
On May 25,2011, Lamar Smith introduced the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which sought to change sentencing rules and mandated that ISPs keep logs of customer data for at least a year.
In 2014, Lamar Smith got more money from fossil fuels than he did from any other industry.
In February 2018, Lamar Smith criticized the World Health Organization's cancer research program for its finding that glyphosate, the active component in the herbicide Roundup, is probably carcinogen.
On January 30,2015, Law360 reported that Lamar Smith has sent letters to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and to the chief technology officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, asking for an explanation of media claims of HealthCare.