Walter I. Smith

Walter Inglewood Smith

Walter Inglewood Smith (July 10, 1862 – January 27, 1922) was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district, and a federal appellate judge with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Smith attended the common schools. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1882 and practiced in Council Bluffs until 1890. He served as judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Iowa from 1890 to 1900.

In November 1900, Smith was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to serve out the remainder of the term of Smith McPherson, who had resigned to accept a presidential nomination as federal district court judge. On the same day, Smith was also elected to serve a full two-year term in the Fifty-seventh Congress, from 1901 to 1903.

Smith was reelected to the five succeeding Congresses and served from December 3, 1900, to March 15, 1911, when he resigned to accept an appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Smith was nominated by President William Howard Taft to a vacancy created by the elevation of Willis Van Devanter to the U.S. Supreme Court. Smith was nominated on January 17, 1911, and confirmed by the United States Senate on January 31, 1911, receiving his commission the same day. Smith served on the Eighth Circuit from March 16, 1911, until his death in Council Bluffs on January 27, 1922. His successor on the Eighth Circuit, U.S. Senator William S. Kenyon, was also drawn from Iowa's congressional delegation.

Smith was interred in Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs.

References

• United States Congress. "Walter I. Smith (id: S000623)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

• Walter I. Smith at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa
1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum
2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack
3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young
4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle Le Compte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King
5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston Le Compte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King
6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy
7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle
8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven
9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey
10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist
11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell
AL	Hastings and Leffler
Terr	Chapman A. Dodge