April 21, 1946 - March 5, 2026 Corporate executive Reverend Hilton O. Smith was born on April 21, 1946, in Elizabethtown, North Carolina to Jack Smith, Jr. and Willie Hall Smith. He received his B.A. degree in political science and sociology from St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1968. Later, Smith also earned a labor relations specialist certification from Cornell University’s School of Labor Relations in Ithaca, New York. Smith began his career workin