Eugene “Buzz” Allen Smith passed away peacefully November 30, 2020 at PeaceHealth in Longview. Buzz was born to Eugene and Virginia Smith in Longview, Wash., February 5, 1947 and grew up in ...

Wil Haygood, who penned one of the most memorable stories of the 2008 election, has a coda on the man he wrote about — Eugene Allen, a former White House butler. Both are worth a read.

Gary Allen Smith, 84, of Springfield Oregon, passed away peacefully with family by his side on September 19, 2023. He was born December 12, 1938, in Eugene, Oregon to Carl and Leona Smith.

Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served presidents from Harry S. Truman through Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 90. Allen died of renal failure Wednesday at a hospital in Takoma Park ...

Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which opens Friday, is loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, a butler at the White House for 34 years and through eight administrations. So loosely based ...

Although he lived to see Barack Obama achieve the highest office, as a boy Eugene Allen knew the infamy of segregation. Born on July 14 1919 at Scottsville, Virginia, he began his working life as ...