death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
truro , nova scotia 2 october 1951 john s. smiley rodney , nova scotia martin j. kaufman progressive conservative mla for cumberland county 1 july 1896 1937 archie b. smith
 1945 archie b. smith lumber dealer , farmer
archie b. smith

archie barney smith -lrb- july 1 , 1896 -- october 2 , 1951 -rrb- was a canadian politician .
he represented the electoral district of cumberland county in the nova scotia house of assembly from 1937 to 1945 .
he was a member of the progressive conservative party of nova scotia .
born in 1896 at rodney , cumberland county , nova scotia , smith was a lumber dealer , farmer and contractor by career .
he married agnes reid in 1919 .
smith served as a municipal councillor in cumberland county for 12 years .
smith entered provincial politics in 1937 , when he was elected in the dual-member cumberland county riding with conservative percy chapman black .
following black 's resignation , smith served with conservative leonard william fraser .
in the 1941 election , smith finished 140 votes ahead of fraser to win the second seat , with liberal kenneth judson cochrane winning the first .
he was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1945 , finishing third behind cochrane and liberal martin j. kaufman .
on september 26 , 1951 , smith was involved in an automobile accident in kemptown , nova scotia .
he died as a result of his injuries at truro on october 2 .
