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| preceded= [[Elmo Futrell|Perry Elmo Futrell, Jr.]]| succeeded=[[Fred Baden]]

| spouse= (1) [[Divorce]]d from Helen Jordan(later Helen Millican)<br>(2) Shirley McLean Bonds Smith (married 1980 – -2010, his death)

Robert Ray Smith (deceased)<br>'''Parents''':<br>|parents=Floyd W. Smith, Sr., and the former Carmel LongSmith|alma_mater=Winnfield Senior High School<br>[[University of Louisiana at Monroe]] (one semester)}}

'''Floyd William Smith, Jr.''' (September 17, 1932 &ndash; February 11, 2010), was a [[business]]man from Winnfield, [[Louisiana]], who served from 1966 to 1970 as the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[mayor]] of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] in Rapides Parish. He was a maternal second cousin of former [[U.S. Representative]] [[Speedy Long|Speedy Oteria Long ]] of La Salle LaSalle Parish in north Louisiana and hence related to various members of the [[Huey Long|Long family]].<ref name=adtt>Bret H. McCormick, "Floyd W. Smith Jr., former mayor of Pineville, dies at 77", " ''The [[Alexandria Daily Town Talk]],'', accessdate=accessed February 12, 2010.</ref>

Smith was born and reared in Winnfield in Winn Parish to Floyd W. Smith, Sr. (March 28, 1902 &ndash; January 15, 1969),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=SMITH&firstname=FLOYD&death=1969&stat=a&start=21|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 12, 2010}}</ref> and the former Carmel Long (died 1994), a daughter of William Morris Long (1887–1967) and the former Fannie Boyd (1893–1955). William Morris Long was an older brother of Felix Franklin Long (1899–1982), the father of Speedy O. Long. Smith's maternal great-grandfather, Charles Felix Long, was a first cousin of Huey Pierce Long, Sr., or Hugh Long, the father of [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long Jr.]], who as his political power grew became known as the "Louisiana Kingfish".<ref name=genealogy>Long family genealogy</ref>

In 1950, Smith graduated from Winnfield Senior High School in Winnfield. He was the president of both his junior and senior classes. One of his classmates, later State Representative Jimmy D. Long of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], was another cousin. Smith said that the two once got into a [[boxing]] competition. Smith was a paternal Smith and a maternal Long, and Jimmy Long was a paternal Long and a maternal Smith, whose mother was the former Ruby Smith (1906–1984). Ruby Smith Long was a sister of another former state representative, the late [[P. K. Smith ]] of Winnfield, and the aunt of State Senator James Michael "Mike" Smith, also of Winnfield.<ref name=genealogy/>

After high school, Smith attended the now named [[University of Louisiana [[Monroe, Louisiana|at Monroe]], as it was later named, for a semester and worked part-time in a clothing factory. In December 1950, Long enlisted in the [[United States Air Force]] and served for eight months at Maxwell Air Force Base in [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]].<ref name=statement>Statement of [[Floyd W. Smith Jr.]], March 2007.</ref><ref>Floyd Smith told an interviewer in 2007 that he was in the United States Air Force for eight months during 1951; however, his obituary says that he was a veteran of the [[United States Army]].</ref> Thereafter, he was employed by the large Central Louisiana Electric Company. From 1962 to 1966, he was chairman of the Pineville Municipal Democratic Executive Committee. He was elected mayor in 1966, having unseated the incumbent [[Elmo Futrell|Perry Elmo Futrell , Jr.,<ref name=ssdi/> ]] by 121 votes. In 1964, in his third year as mayor, Futrell had been named "Mayor of the Year" by the Louisiana Municipal Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/89115329/|title=Four from Area Get LMA Honors|publisher='The '[[Monroe News-Star]]''|date=March 23, 1964|page=5|accessdate=July 5, 2015}}</ref>

Smith ran successfully for alderman at-large in 1970,<ref name=adtt/> as Frederick Herman [[Fred Baden, Sr.]], a [[plumber]] with whom Smith often politically quarreled, began the first of seven consecutive terms as mayor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=thetowntalk&sParam=32326739.story|title=Former Pineville Mayor Fred Baden dies, December 17, 2009|publisher=content.usa.today.net|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref> In 1971, Smith left the city council and ran for the Louisiana State Senate against the incumbent [[Cecil Ray R. Blair ]] of Lecompte in south Rapides Parish. [[Arnold Jack Rosenthal]], an Alexandria businessman and [[attorney]], also entered the race against Blair. Smith ran sufficiently strong to force Blair into a runoff, and the third-place candidate, Rosenthal, thereafter endorsed Smith. Blair still prevailed by some two thousand votes and then ran without [[Republican Party|Republican]] opposition in the [[general election]] held on February 1, 1972.<ref name=adtt/>

In 1983, Smith ran for governor of Louisiana, having geared his campaign toward drawing attention to the poor condition of many Louisiana [[highway]]s. He polled only 2,314 votes, as [[Edwin Edwards]] handily reclaimed the office from the Republican incumbent [[David C. Treen]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Gubernatorial election returns, October 22, 1983.</ref> In 1984, Smith polled 4 percent of the vote in a race for the District 5 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Victory went to the Democrat [[Don Owen|Donald Lynn "Don" Owen]], a former news anchor from station KSLA-] in [[Shreveport]]], who succeeded the retiring [[Edward Kennon]].<ref>"Owen wins PSC post", ''Minden Press-Herald'', October 1, 1984, p. 1.</ref> Smith promised if elected to the commission to halt fuel cost adjustments and advocated a single rate for [[electricity]]. He vowed to investigate the contracts of fuel companies and urged the refund of overcharges to consumers.<ref>''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'', September 26, 1984, p. 6A.</ref>

In 1995 and 1999, Smith ran at the local level for Winn Parish sheriff, but he lost both races to incumbent fellow Democrat James E. "Buddy" Jordan. In 2003, Smith waged his final race for office, having contested the Winn Parish seat in the Louisiana of Representatives. He lost to the incumbent [[Thomas D. Wright​|Thomas D. "Tommy" Wright ]] of Jena, who then won the general election against Republican Tony Kevin Owens (born 1960), also from Jena.<ref>

Current Former Pineville Mayor [[Clarence Ray Fields, Sr.]], said that he had developed a relationship with Smith through the years even though Smith had returned to Winn Parish. Fields said that Smith was willing to give advice and share some of his concerns about the city. Similarly, Rapides Parish Police Juror Richard Vanderlick recalled that he and Smith worked together at CLECO in the early 1960s and had remained friends throughout the years. Vanderlick said that Smith "never lost his passion for politics."<ref name=adtt/>

Smith was twice married. By the former Helen Jordan(1934-2020), whom he wed in 1953, were born three children: Marilyn S. O'Hare (born 1954), Patricia Smith "Tricia" Hensarling (born 1955), and Robert Ray Smith (1959–1998). Marilyn O'Hare is a financial planner in [[Baton Rouge Rouge]] and resident of Prairieville, Louisiana. Tricia is State Adult Services Director for the Office of Mental Health and married to Kinard Dale Hensarling (born 1951), a [[United Methodist]] minister in Opelousas. Son Robert R. Smith died at the age of thirty-nine.<ref name=statement/><ref name=adtt>Obituary of Floyd W. Smith Jr.,''Alexandria Daily Town Talk'', accessed February 12, 2010</ref>

Floyd and Helen Smith divorced in the early 1970s; she remarried married Herman Monroe Millican (1941-2016) and resides resided in Houston. In 1977, he married the former Shirley McLean, a Shreveport native and the former wife of Jay Reeves Bond, Sr., of Pineville. The Smiths resided at 188 Floyd Smith Road outside Winnfield.<ref>Net Detective People Search</ref>

Smith died of [[pneumonia]] at the age of seventy-seven in Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria.<ref name=obitadtt/> In addition to his wife and daughters, he was survived by a sister, Juanita S. Carter of [[Bossier City]], and two stepsons, Jay Bond, Jr. (born c. 1959) of Doyline and Brad Alan Bond (born c. 1961) of Gonzales, Louisiana, three step-grandchildren, and three step-great-grandchildren. Services were held at the chapel of Southern Funeral Home in Winnfield on February 14, 2010. He is interred at Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Winnfield.<ref name=obitadtt/>