Frederick Charles Lee Smith (11 November 1883 – 25 August 1960) was an Australian trade unionist, journalist, and politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1932 to 1950, representing the seat of Brown Hill-Ivanhoe.
Smith was born in Reefton, a small town on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.
[1] Smith first stood for parliament at the 1928 Legislative Council elections, but was defeated by the sitting Nationalist member, Harold Seddon, in North-East Province.
He stood in North-East Province on another two occasions, but was unsuccessful both times, losing to Frederick Allsop (a fellow New Zealander) in 1930 and to Edgar Harris in 1932.
In July 1932, Smith entered parliament as the member for Brown Hill-Ivanhoe, a Labor safe seat, winning unopposed the by-election caused by the death of John Lutey.