City of Fredericksburg

John Quincy Smith currently lives in King George County and was raised in a working-class family in Ohio. Following military service that included a deployment to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam conflict, the GI Bill helped him to earn a Ph.D. in history from Ohio State. He continued to serve as a Department of Defense civilian with the U.S. Air Force as a historian with assignments in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. and deployments to Southwest Asia. After retiring from the role of Air Force Senior Historian, he and his wife, Grace, moved to King George County, where Grace works as a special education teacher at King George Elementary School.

Smith wants to build a robust regional economy for everyone, with controlled development to protect the environmental integrity of the Northern Neck region. This stance earned him an endorsement from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)..

He also supports commonsense gun legislation. His policy positions earned him the 2023 Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate distinction. He wants to defend voting rights, and supports increased funding to build quality public education. His desire to protect reproductive rights and access to abortion earned him an endorsement from Roe Your Vote Virginia and from the Committee to Protect Healthcare.

Smith’s opponent in this race is Republican Hillary Pugh Kent, a conservative businesswoman. She’d rather blindly increase funding for law enforcement than do anything to hold them accountable. She’s a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist who believes the pandemic was overblown because we handed the government the reins. Independent Richard Kenski is also in this race, but at the time of research we could find no information on him.

Because of his support for building strong healthcare that supports abortion access, his push to protect the environment, and his commonsense gun control positions, John Quincy Smith is the progressive choice in this race.
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