| William Smith | |
| State: | Virginia |
| District: | 21st |
| Term: | March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827 |
| Predecessor: | Thomas Newton Jr. |
| Successor: | Lewis Maxwell |
| State2: | Virginia |
| District2: | 7th |
| Term2: | March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823 |
| Predecessor2: | Ballard Smith |
| Successor2: | Jabez Leftwich |
| Party: | Jacksonian |
| Otherparty: | Democratic-Republican |
| Birth Date: | Unknown |
| Birth Place: | Chesterfield County, Virginia |
| Death Date: | Unknown |
William Smith was an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century congressman from Virginia.
Born in Chesterfield, Virginia, Smith graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1807. He studied law and relocated to Greenbrier County, Virginia.[1]
During the War of 1812 Smith served as a captain of artillery, stationed in Norfolk, Virginia.[2]
Smith was first elected to the House of Delegates for the session of 1819/20.[3]
He was elected a Democratic-Republican, Crawford Republican and Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1820, serving from 1821 to 1827.[4]
Smith served a second time in the House of Delegates for the session of 1828/29.[5]
Smith was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830 from Greenbrier County, serving from a district made up of Monroe, Greenbriar, Bath, Botetourt, Alleghay, Pocahontas and Nicolas. He served there on the Committee on the Executive Department.[6]
In the 1840s, Smith was an aide to Democratic Governor James McDowell 1843–46, and served as a presidential elector in 1844.[7]
Smith was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 from Greenbrier County, serving from a district made up of Greenbrier County, from an Assembly district made up of the transmontane Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Nicholas and Kanawha Counties.[8]
In the 1850s, Smith served from Greenbriar in the Virginia Senate in the sessions of 1857/58 and 1859/60. On the eve of the American Civil War, he again served in January 1861.[9]
Smith was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 53.17% of the vote, defeating fellow Democratic-Republican James Wilson.