Samuel Smith Explained
Samuel Smith may refer to:
In politics
- Samuel Smith (Connecticut politician) (1646–1735), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut and deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut in 1691
- Samuel Smith (1754–1834), British Member of Parliament for Leicester, Malmesbury, Midhurst, St Germans and Wendover
- Samuel Smith (1755–1793), British Member of Parliament for Worcester, Ludgershall and Ilchester
- Samuel Smith (North Carolina), 18th-century North Carolina politician
- Samuel Smith (Liberal politician) (1836–1906), British Member of Parliament for Liverpool, 1882–1885 and Flintshire, 1886–1906
- Samuel Smith Jr., American politician; Democratic member of the Indiana Senate, 1998–2008
- Samuel Hardman Smith (1868–1956), Canadian politician; municipal politician in Edmonton
- Samuel Smith (Australian politician) (1857–1916), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- Samuel Smith (New York politician), mayor of the City of Brooklyn, New York, 1850
- Samuel Smith (Maryland politician) (1752–1839), U.S. Senator and Representative from Maryland
- Samuel Smith (New Hampshire politician) (1765–1842), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Samuel Smith (Pennsylvania politician), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1805–1811
- Samuel Smith (Upper Canada politician) (1756–1826), American-born Canadian politician; Administrator of Upper Canada, 1817–1818
- Samuel A. Smith (1795–1861), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- Samuel Axley Smith (1822–1863), U.S. Representative from Tennessee
- Samuel E. Smith (1788–1860), American politician; Governor of Maine, 1831–1834
- Samuel George Smith (1822–1900), MP for Aylesbury, 1859–1880
- Samuel H. Smith (politician) (born 1955), American politician; Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Samuel James Smith (1897–1964), Australian politician, New South Wales MLC
- Samuel William Smith (1852–1931), American politician; Congressman from Michigan
In education and academia
- Samuel Smith, father and son, both English priests and educators:
- Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751–1819), American educator; seventh president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University)
- Samuel Roger Smith (1853–1916), co-founder and first president of Messiah College in Pennsylvania
- Sam Smith (psychologist) (1929–2012), second president of Athabasca University
- Samuel H. Smith (educator) (born 1940), American educator; president of Washington State University, 1985–2000
- Samuel L. Smith, school administrator and architect of Rosenwald schools in the U.S.
In other fields
- Sam Smith (painter) (1918–1999), American artist
- Samuel Smith (prison chaplain) (1620–1698), Ordinary of Newgate prison
- Samuel Smith (photographer) (1802–1892), English photographer aka 'Philosopher' Smith.
- Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895), American Baptist minister, journalist and author; wrote the lyrics to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"
- Samuel Harrison Smith (printer) (1772–1845), American journalist and newspaper publisher, founded the National Intelligencer, 1800
- Samuel Smith (chemist) (1927–2005), American scientist; co-inventor of Scotchgard
- Samuel Walter Johnson Smith (1871–1948), English physicist
- Samuel Smith (watchmaker) (died 1875), founder of Smiths Group
- Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints) (1808–1844), American Latter-day Saint; Book of Mormon witness, missionary, and brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Samuel J. Smith, Baptist missionary, printer and publisher in Siam
- Samuel Pountney Smith (1812–1883), English architect
- Samuel Smith (winemaker) (1812–1889), South Australian pioneer who founded Yalumba
- African-American victim of the Lynching of Samuel Smith (1924)
- Samuel Timothy Smith, birth name of Tim McGraw (born 1967), American country singer
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