Peter Plympton Smith
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Peter Plympton Smith, the son of prominent banker and state senator Frederick P. Smith, was born October 31, 1945. He attended public schools in Burlington, Vermont, then enrolled at Phillips Academy, from which he graduated in 1964. He received a B.A. in History from Princeton University in 1968, then in 1970 received a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Harvard School of Education. He served one year as an Assistant to the Vermont Commissioner of Education, then in 1970 became the first President of the Community College of Vermont. In 1978 he ran for Lieutenant Governor, defeating Lt. Gov. T. Garry Buckley in the Republican primary but losing to Democratic State Rep. Madeleine M. Kunin in the general election.
In 1981-1982 he served as a Vermont state senator representing a district in Washington County. Smith was elected Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1983-1986. In 1984, while Lieutenant Governor, he received an Ed.D. from the Harvard School of Education. In 1986 he was the Republican Nominee for Governor of Vermont, a race he lost to Democratic Governor Madeleine M. Kunin. After two years as Vice-President of Norwich University he ran for Congress in 1988 as a Republican and served one two-year term before losing to independent Bernard Sanders. From 1991-1994 he was dean of the School of Education and Human Development of George Washington University. In 1991 he served as Executive Director of the US Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education. In 1994 he was appointed the founding President of California State University, Monterey Bay, from which he stepped down in 2005. Since June 20, 2005 he has been Assistant Director-General for Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
He is married to the former Sally Giddings, an artist, and is the brother of Charles Plympton Smith.
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Smith_%28Vermont%29&action=edit
- http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/smith-peter-p.html
- http://www.upenn.edu/heia/people/bio/smith.html
- http://www.mcweekly.com/issues/Issue.06-02-2005/cover/Article.cover_story
- http://www.mcweekly.com/issues/Issue.12-30-2004/news/Article.news_feature_2
- http://sbs.csumb.edu/advocate/documents.html
- http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41984&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
- Smith, Peter P. (1982) Your Hidden Credentials: the Value of learning Outside College
- Smith, Peter P. (2004) The Quiet Crisis : How Higher Education is Failing America. Anker ISBN 1-882982-70-3
| Preceded by: Madeleine M. Kunin |
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont 1983–1987 |
Succeeded by: Howard Dean |
| Preceded by: James Jeffords |
United States Representative for the At Large Congressional District of Vermont 1989–1991 |
Succeeded by: Bernie Sanders |
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