Edward Smart (politician)

Edward Lithgow Smart (9 December 1862 – 28 November 1948) was a plumber and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

He acquired his own plumbing business in 1885 and eventually became a director of the Sugarloaf Colliery Company.

[1] On 11 April 1895 he married Emma Jessie Hunt (died 1939)[2] and together had three sons and two daughters.

[3] Smart, who was a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, was an Alderman on the Toowoomba City Council from 1894 until 1900.

[1] When one of the sitting members for the Queensland state seat of Drayton & Toowoomba, John Fogarty died in 1904, Smart, representing the Labour Party, won the resulting by-election.