{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Charles Allan Smart | honorific_suffix = | image = Charles Allan Smart.png | image_size = | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Westmount | predecessor = District created in 1912 | successor = William Ross Bulloch | term_start = 1912 | term_end = 1936 | office2 = Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Inkerman | predecessor2 = George Bryson, Jr. | successor2 = Martin Fisher | term_start2 = May 18, 1937 | term_end2 = June 4, 1937 | birth_date = {{birth date|1868|03|23}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|06|04|1868|03|23}} | death_place = Westmount, Quebec | spouse = | party = Conservative | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | branch = Canadian Militia | service_years = 1898-1919 | rank = Brigadier General | unit = 6th Duke of Connaught's Royal Canadian Hussars | commands = 13th Scottish Light Dragoons<br />Eastern Townships Cavalry Brigade<br />2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Brigade<br />15th Canadian Brigade | battles = First World War }}
'''Charles Allan Smart''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (March 23, 1868 – June 4, 1937) was a Canadian politician and a seven-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.<ref>{{Quebec MNA biography|smart-charles-allan-5391}}</ref>
==Early life==
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, on March 23, 1868. The son of Robert Smart, a shoemaker, originally from Aberdeen, and his wife Margaret Clark, from Arbroath, he was educated at the High School of Montreal. In 1881, he left school and became a clerk for with Alexander Buntin and Co., a stationery firm. In 1884, he moved to Tellier, Rothwell and Co., oil dealers, where he stayed for seven years.<ref>Desmond Morton, [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/smart_charles_allan_16E.html Charles Allan Smart] at biographi.org</ref>
==City Councillor==
Smart was a city councillor in Westmount in 1910.
==Member of the legislature/military career==
He successfully ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Westmount in the 1912 election. He was re-elected in the 1916, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1931 and 1935 elections. He did not run for re-election in 1936.
==Legislative Councillor==
Smart was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1936, but the institution did not resume its activities until after he died.
==Death==
He died on June 4, 1937.
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