In the 1930s, Smith was a faculty member at Brookwood Labor College.[3] On June 5, 1933, with the departure of A.J. Muste, Smith was appointed director of the college until it closed in 1937.[4]
In 1948, Smith was selected as the Socialist vice presidential candidate to run along with Norman Thomas. The 1948 Socialist ticket garnered 139,569 votes.[5] In 1930 Tucker was the Socialist candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 2nd District.[6] Tucker finished third of four candidates with 6,144 votes for 3.8% of the total vote.[7]
On January 8, 1949, Smith was dismissed from his position at Olivet College because he had organized a teachers' union following the dismissal of colleague and professor of political science T. Barton Akeley. In May 1949 Socialist Party dinner, New York University philosophy professor Sidney Hook attacked Smith's dismissal, arguing that teachers should be judged on merit only by their peers.[8]
References
^Havel, James T. (January 1, 1996). The candidates. Macmillan Library Reference USA. ISBN9780028646220. Retrieved March 8, 2017 – via Google Books.
^"T.P. Smith to Oppose Compulsory Militarism." Cornell Daily Sun. March 4, 1930.