D. Adam Smith (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Washington's 9th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 1997. His current term ends on January 3, 2025.
Smith (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Washington's 9th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the primary scheduled on August 6, 2024.
Smith was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996.
Since at least 2011 and including in 2019-2020, Smith was assigned to the Committee on Armed Services.
Smith was a member of the Washington State Senate from 1991 to 1996 and worked as city prosecutor for Seattle, Washington, from 1993 to 1995. He was 25 when he was first elected to the state Senate in 1990 when he beat a long-time incumbent Republican to take the seat. Smith also won his first election to Congress in 1996 against an incumbent Republican, Randy Tate. He won that election with 50.1 percent of votes against Tate's 47.3 percent. He received an average of 59 percent of votes in all of his re-election bids from 1998 through 2018. Since redistricting in 2010 through the 2018 election, he won an average of 71 percent of votes in each general election.
Smith was born in Washington, D.C. He earned his B.A. from Fordham University in 1987, and he earned his J.D. from the University of Washington in 1990. Prior to his election to the United States House of Representatives, Smith served as a member of the Washington State Senate.
