Charles Allan Smart

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| name = Charles Allan Smart

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| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Westmount

| predecessor = District created in 1912

| successor = William Ross Bulloch

| term_start = 1912

| term_end = 1936

| office2 = Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Inkerman

| predecessor2 = George Bryson, Jr.

| successor2 = Martin Fisher

| term_start2 = May 18, 1937

| term_end2 = June 4, 1937

| birth_date = {{birth date|1868|03|23}}

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec

| death_date = {{death date and age|1937|06|04|1868|03|23}}

| death_place = Westmount, Quebec

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| party = Conservative

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| branch = Canadian Militia

| serviceyears = 1898-1919

| rank = Brigadier General

| unit = 6th Duke of Connaught's Royal Canadian Hussars

| commands = 13th Scottish Light Dragoons
Eastern Townships Cavalry Brigade
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Brigade
15th Canadian Brigade

| battles = First World War

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Charles Allan Smart {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (March 23, 1868 – June 4, 1937) was a Canadian politician and a seven-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.{{Quebec MNA biography|smart-charles-allan-5391}}

Early life

He was born in Montreal, Quebec, on March 23, 1868. The son of Robert Smart, a shoemaker, originally from Aberdeen, and his wife Margaret Clark, from Arbroath, he was educated at the High School of Montreal. In 1881, he left school and became a clerk for with Alexander Buntin and Co., a stationery firm. In 1884, he moved to Tellier, Rothwell and Co., oil dealers, where he stayed for seven years.Desmond Morton, [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/smart_charles_allan_16E.html Charles Allan Smart] at biographi.org

City Councillor

Smart was a city councillor in Westmount in 1910.

Member of the legislature/military career

He successfully ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Westmount in the 1912 election. He was re-elected in the 1916, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1931 and 1935 elections. He did not run for re-election in 1936.