Bryce B. Smith (1878-22 May 1962) was the Democratic Mayor of Kansas City from 1930 to 5 January 1940, succeeding Albert I. Beach and preceding Charles S. Keith.
Biography[]
Bryce B. Smith was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1878, and he moved to Kansas City in the 1880s and founded the General Baking Corporation. He served on the city council from 1920 to 1924 and as Mayor from 1930 to 1940, and he chose not to enforce Prohibition. He resigned after the fall from grace of his mentor, the political boss Tom Pendergast, in 1940.