George Baldwin Smith

George Baldwin Smith (May 22, 1823 – September 18, 1879) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was the 4th Attorney General of Wisconsin, and the 3rd and 16th mayor of Madison, Wisconsin.

Legal and political career

Smith was admitted to the federal bar in to Southport, Wisconsin Territory, (present-day Kenosha, Wisconsin) in 1843. In 1845, he moved to the territorial capital of Madison, where he was appointed district attorney for Dane County in January 1846. He served in this role until 1852. He was elected to represent Dane County at the 1846 Wisconsin Constitutional Convention.

Smith was elected Attorney General of Wisconsin in 1853, serving from 1854 to 1856; he declined a re-nomination in 1855. After leaving office, his name was drawn into the scandal involving the fraudulent re-election of William A. Barstow in 1855. His family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1825,

Smith married Eugenia Weed in 1844. They had five children, two of whom survived to adulthood:

Madison Mayor (1858)

Wisconsin Assembly Dane 6th District (1858)

Madison Mayor (1859, 1860)

Wisconsin Assembly Dane 5th District (1863)

U.S. House of Representatives (1864)

Wisconsin Assembly Dane 5th District (1868)

U.S. House of Representatives (1872)