Edgar C. Smith

Edgar Crosby Smith (February 12, 1870 – February 21, 1934) was an American jurist, author, and government official who was Secretary of State of Maine from 1927 to 1933.

Early life Smith was born in Brownville, Maine, on February 12, 1870, to Samuel Atwood and Martha (Jenks) Smith. He graduated from the East Maine Conference Seminary in 1890.

On January 18, 1893, Smith married Harriette M. Ladd in Foxcroft, Maine. They had two children.

Writing Smith authored Life of Moses Greenleaf, Maine's First Mapmaker and Bibliography of the Maps of Maine. He wrote Our Eastern Boundary Controversy for Hatch's History of Maine. He also wrote historical sketches for Sprague's Journal of Maine History, the Lewiston Journal, and other publications. He was reelected in 1929 and 1931. Smith ran for a fourth term in 1933, but due to his poor health, Republican legislators feared he would be unable to complete his term and governor Louis J. Brann would appoint a Democrat. Smith's deputy Robinson C. Tobey was nominated instead. Smith did not recover from his illness and died on February 21, 1934.