“Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York.”

About George Smathers

Politician • American

George Armistead Smathers was an influential American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Florida from 1951 to 1969. A member of the Democratic Party, he began his political career in the U.S. House...