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Charles Smith (developer)
Real estate developer and philanthropist
Charles Emil Smith (né Schmidoff; March 28, 1901 – December 30, 1995)[1][2] was a real estate developer and philanthropist in the Washington metropolitan area.
Biography
Early life
Smith (born Schmidoff),[1] was born in Lipnick, Russian Empire on March 28, 1901[2] to Sadie and Reuven Schmidoff, in an OrthodoxRussian Jewish family.[3][4] His family farmed potatoes and corn.[4] At age 7, he contracted diphtheria.[4] His father immigrated to the U.S. in 1908 to earn money to bring the rest of the family over.[4] Smith immigrated to Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1911 speaking only Yiddish upon his arrival.[1] He was placed in the fourth grade despite being the same age as sixth graders.[4] He learned English quickly and graduated from City College of New York.[1] His father became a real estate developer and brought Smith into the business.[1]
Career
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Charles E. Smith
MSA SC 3520-10051
Biography:
Born in Brunswick, Maryland, December 18, 1948. Attended Brunswick public schools; Frederick Community College; University of Baltimore, B.S., 1973. Married; two children.
General Assembly:
House of Delegates, Carroll and Frederick counties, 1975-82. Member, House Economic Matters Committee.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
President and owner, American Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc. Chair, State Board of Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, & Refrigeration Contractors, 1994-97. Secretary, Frederick Mutual Insurance Company, Frederick, Maryland. Owner, Smith's Evergreen Nursery, Wilson, North Carolina. President, Brunswick Slo-pitch Softball League; Brunswick Lions Club. Member, Brunswick Volunteer Fire Company; Jefferson Ruritan Club; Walkersville Volunteer Fire Company.
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By an amazing coincidence, Charles E. Smith was one of two Charles Smiths on the 1988 US Olympic basketball team, along with Charles Daniel Smith. CE Smith played his college basketball at Georgetown University, and was named Big East player of the year in 1988-89. Smith was not chosen in the NBA draft, but did play in the NBA for the Boston Celtics (1989-91) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (1995). He played professional basketball through 2001, however, in the CBA and Europe. In all he played, at various times, for the following teams: Florida Beach Dogs, Florida Sharks, Hartford Hellcats, Iraklis, La Crosse Bobcats, Liège Basket, Media Broker Messina, Obras Sanitarias, Omaha Racers, Ourense, Rapid City Thrillers, Record Napoli, Red Star Belgrade, Rockford Lightning, Serapide Pozzuoli, and Vaqueros de Bayamón.
During and after his basketball career, Smith had several problems with the law. In 1992 he was convicted of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crime, in the hit-and-run deaths of two Boston University students in March 1991. In 2010, Smith was shot twice in the
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