Dan Smoot
| Howard Drummond "Dan" Smoot | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
October 5, 1913 |
| Died | July 24, 2003 (aged 89) Tyler, Smith County Texas |
| Residence |
(1) Dallas, Texas Smith County, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation |
Federal Bureau of Investigation agent |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) |
Mabeth Evans Smoot (?-?, divorce) |
| Children |
Bernard Evans "Barney" Smoot |
| Parent(s) | Bernie and Dora Allbright Smoot |
October 5, 1913
East Prairie
Mississippi County
(1) Dallas, Texas
Federal Bureau of Investigation agent
Mabeth Evans Smoot (?-?, divorce)
Bernard Evans "Barney" Smoot
Lawrence Edward "Larry" Smoot
Howard Drummond Smoot, known as Dan Smoot (October 5, 1913, in East Prairie, Mississippi County, Missouri – July 24, 2003, in Tyler, Smith County, Texas), was a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a conservative political activist. From 1957 to 1971, he published The Dan Smoot Report, which chronicled alleged communist infiltration in various sectors of American government and society.
Smoot was born into poverty in a log cabin in Mississippi County in southeastern Missouri, to Bernie Smoot, a sharecropper, and Dora Smoot, née Allbright. As a six-year-old, he picked and hoed cotton. He cultivated corn with a one-mule plow at the age of eight. He had a sister, Virginia Ruth, and a brother, Jewell, who predeceased him. Despite the lack of material resources, Bernie Smoot taught young Dan how to read the classics. When he was orphaned at eleven, Dan was sent to live with an uncle who forbade scholarly pursuits. He ran away from the uncle's home at the age of fourteen with a dime in his pocket but determined to make a life of his own. At the age of twenty, Smoot married Betty Evans, his 16-year-old childhood sweetheart, who became the mother of his two sons, Barney and Larry. Later divorced, he married his secretary, Virginia McKnight who preceded him in death by some seven years. Relocated to Dallas, Smoot graduated from high school and attended Southern Methodist University and later Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from which he dropped out prior to receiving a Ph.D. in American Civilization to enter the United States Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. However, the Army rejected Smoot for flat feet.
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