SMITH, John Speed, congressman, born in Jessamine county, Kentucky, 31 July, 1792; died in Madison county, Kentucky, 6 June, 1854. He received a public-school education, became a skilled Indian fighter, served under General William H. Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe, and was his aide in the battle of the Thames, 5 October, 1813. He was frequently in the legislature, its speaker in 1827, and a member of congress in 1821-'3, having been elected as a Democrat. During the administration of John Quincy Adams he was secretary of the delegation that was sent by the United States to the South American congress which met at Tacubaya. In 1828-'32 he was United States district attorney for Kentucky. In 1839 he was appointed, with James T. Morehead, a commissioner to Ohio to obtain the passage of a law for protecting slave property in Kentucky. For several years previous to his death he was state superintendent of public works, and in 1846-'8 he was a member of the Kentucky senate.--His son, Green Clay, soldier, born in Richmond, Kentucky, 2 July, 1832, was named for his grandfather, General Green Clay. After serving a year in the Mexican war as lieutenant of Kentucky cavalry, he entered Transylvania university, where he was graduated in 1850, and at Lexington law-school in 1853, and practised in partnership with his father. In 1858 he removed to Covington. In 1853-'7 he served as school commissioner. In 1860 he was a member of the Kentucky legislature, where he earnestly upheld the National government, and in 1861 he entered the army as a private. He became colonel of the 4th Kentucky cavalry in February, 1862, served under General Ebenezer Dumont, and was wounded at Lebanon, Tennessee He was made brigadier-general of volunteers, 11 June, 1862, but, having been chosen a member of congress, resigned his commission on 1 December, 1863, after taking part in numerous engagements. He served till 1866, when he resigned on being appointed by President Johnson governor of Montana. where he remained till 1869. He was a delegate to the Baltimore Republican convention in 1864, and on 13 March, 1865, was given the brevet of major-general of volunteers. On his retirement from the governorship of Montana he entered the Christian ministry, was ordained in 1869, and became in the same year pastor of the Baptist church in Frankfort, Kentucky Much of his later ministry has been employed in evangelistic service. General Smith has also taken an active part in furthering the temperance reform, and in 1876 was the candidate of the Prohibition party for the presidency of the United States, receiving a popular vote of 9,522.