SMITH, William Russell, congressman, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 8 August, 1813. He was educated at the University of Alabama, but was not graduated, and began the practice of law in Greensborough, Alabama He served in the Creek war in 1836 as a captain of volunteer infantry, removed to Tuscaloosa in 1838, founded the "Monitor" in that city, and was mayor in 1839. He was a circuit judge and major-general of state militia in 1850-'1, and in the former year was chosen to congress as a Whig, serving by re-election till 1857. During his last term in that office he delivered a notable speech in denunciation of Louis Kossuth. He was a member of the Alabama convention in 1861, opposed secession, but after the opening of hostilities sat in the Confederate congress tilt 1865. He was president of the University of Alabama for several years after the war, but resigned to devote himself to his profession and to literary pursuits. He has published " The Alabama Justice " (New York, 1841) ; " The Uses of Solitude," a poem (Albany, New York, 1860) ; " As it Is," a novel (Tuscaloosa, 1860) ; "Condensed Alabama Reports" (1862) ; and several poems and legal pamphlets.