William Smith (Maryland)

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William Smith (1728–1814) was a politician from Maryland, and representative of the fourth congressional district.

Smith was born in Donegal Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on April 12, 1728. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1761, and was appointed a member of the committee of correspondence in 1774, and a member of the committee of observation in 1775. Smith was also one of a committee appointed by the Continental Congress to constitute a naval board in 1777.

Smith was chosen as a Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777. He subsequently pursued a career as a merchant, and then was elected to the First United States Congress, from March 4, 1789 until March 3, 1791. Smith was the First Auditor of the United States Treasury from July 16, 1791 to November 27, 1791. He returned to local politics to be elected to the Maryland Senate in 1801. Smith died in Baltimore on March 27, 1814 and was interred in the Old Westminster Graveyard.

Smith's daughter Mary was married to Gen. Otho Holland Williams, founder of Williamsport, Maryland. Williams served in the Revolutionary War as Deputy Adjutant General to both Gens. Horatio Gates and Nathaniel Greene.

Preceded by (none)

Representative of the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland 1789–1791

Succeeded by Samuel Sterett