Raymond W. "Ray" Smock is an American

United States

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 historian who has been serving as director of the Robert C. Byrd

Robert Byrd

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 Center for Legislative Studies at Shepherd University

Shepherd University

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. He is a former Historian of the United States House of Representatives

Historian of the United States House of Representatives

The Historian of the United States House of Representatives is an official appointed by the United States House of Representatives to study and document its past....

and also serves as president of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress, and, starting in 2006, as a board member of the West Virginia Humanities Council and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Works

• Smock, Raymond W. "Public History at the U.S. House of Representatives". The Public Historian, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1995), pp. 49-57

External links

• "Q&A with Raymond Smock" on the C-Span website
• List of books edited by Raymond W, Smock (photograph included)