Alma Wheeler Smith and Supporters Celebrate Election Results, November 1994
Supporters Congratulate Alma Wheeler Smith At Election Party, November 1994
Alma Wheeler Smith Celebrates Election to State Senate, November 1994
Ann Arbor News, November 9, 1994
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Alma Wheeler Smith gets a hug from a supporter Tuesday night at Paesano's restaurant, where Democrats had an election party.
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Senator Smith Climbs in Polls
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Incumbent Alma Wheeler Smith Runs for South Lyon School Board, May 1992
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AACHM Oral History: Mary McDade, Alma Wheeler Smith, and Nancy Cornelia Wheeler
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 10:55am
Mary McDade was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1939, but grew up in Ann Arbor. Her parents Albert and Emma Wheeler were active in local politics and civil rights. As a college student, McDade helped found the University of Michigan chapter of the NAACP. She moved to Peoria, Illinois with her husband Joe Billy McDade in 1963. After raising four children, she built a career in law. McDade graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law and she has been a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court since 2000.
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Legacies Project Oral History: Alma Wheeler Smith
Tue, 12/10/2019 - 11:01am
Alma Wheeler Smith was born in 1941. She recalls attending Civil Rights meetings in Ann Arbor with her parents. Her father Albert H. Wheeler was the first African American mayor of Ann Arbor (1975-78). Smith worked for nearly a decade as a TV producer before becoming a politician. Smith (D) served in the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the Michigan delegation from 2005-2010 representing the 54th District. Prior to her tenure in the U.S. House, Smith served in the Michigan Senate representing the 18th District from 1995-2002.
Alma Wheeler Smith was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2018 as part of the Legacies Project.