| William Cunningham Smith | |
| Birth Date: | 12 July 1875 |
| Birth Place: | Glenallen, Ontario |
| Death Place: | Medicine Hat, Alberta |
| Constituency: | Redcliff |
| Term Start: | July 18, 1921 |
| Term End: | June 28, 1926 |
| Predecessor: | Charles Pingle |
| Successor: | District abolished |
| Constituency1: | Empress |
| Term Start1: | June 28, 1926 |
| Term End1: | August 22, 1935 |
| Predecessor1: | New district |
| Successor1: | David Lush |
| Party: | United Farmers |
| Spouse: | Susan Evelyn Rutherford m 20 Jan 1907[1] |
| Occupation: | politician |
William Cunningham Smith (July 12, 1875 – May 24, 1968) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1935 as a member of the United Farmers caucus in government.
William Cunningham Smith was born July 12, 1875, at Glenallen, Ontario to Abram Smith a public school teacher and his wife Eliza Cunningham, both of Irish descent.[2] He attended Stratford Collegiate Institute and practiced dentistry. He was married January 30, 1907 to Evelyn Rutherford and had two children.[2] Smith served in the 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Second Boer War.[2]
Smith first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1921 Alberta general election, as a United Farmers candidate in the electoral district of Redcliff. He defeated Charles Pingle, the Speaker of the Assembly, to pick up the seat for his party.[3]
The electoral district of Redcliff was abolished in redistribution by 1926. Smith ran for re-election in the new seat of Empress in the election held that year and defeated two other candidates.[4]
In the 1930 Alberta general election Smith won a tight two-way race over independent candidate E. A. Mantz.[5]
In the 1935 Alberta general election he was defeated by Social Credit candidate David Lush. He finished a distant second in the three-way race.[6]
Smith died in 1968 at the age of 92.[7]