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Smith, William Loughton

diplomat, congressman, author, was born in 1758 in Charleston, S. C. He was a representative from South Carolina from 1789 to 1799; and resigned in 1797 to become minister to Portugal; and was minister to Spain in 1800-01. He was an active federalist politician. He was the author of Speeches; Comparative View of the Constitutions of the States; and American Arguments for British Rights. He died in 1812 in Charleston, S. C.

SMITH, WILLIAM NATHAN HAR- RELL, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1812, in Murfreesborough, N. C. In 1840 he was elected a member of the state house of commons; and in 1848 was elected to the state senate. He was solicitor of the first judicial district for eight years. In 1858 he was again elected to the house of commons, but resigned his seat; and was elected a representative from North Carolina to the thirty-sixth congress. He took part in the rebellion of 1861 as a member of the so-called confederate congress; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866, and the New York convention of 1868. He died Nov. 14, 1889, in Raleigh, N. C.