Career
He represented Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1925 to 1928 as a Liberal-Conservative member. He was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the son of William Charles Smith, and was educated in Luneburg, Halifax and Belleville, Ontario. In 1921, Smith married Mary Gwendolyn Pugsley.
Smith was vice-president of Lunenburg Sea Products, which operated a fish processing plant.
He lived in Lunenburg but later moved to North Vancouver.