Green Clay Smith (4 July 1826-29 June 1895) was a member of the US House of Representatives (U-KY 6) from 4 March 1863 to 13 July 1866 (succeeding George W. Dunlap and preceding Andrew H. Ward) and the Territorial Governor of Montana from 13 July 1866 to 9 April 1869 (succeeding Thomas Francis Meagher and preceding James Mitchell Ashley).
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Green Clay Smith was born in Richmond, Kentucky in 1826, the son of John Speed Smith, the maternal grandson of Green Clay, and the maternal nephew of Brutus J. Clay and Cassius M. Clay. He served as a US Army lieutenant during the Mexican-American War before becoming a lawyer and school commissioner in Covington. Smith served in the State House from 1861 to 1863, in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1866, and as Territorial Governor of Montana from 1866 to 1869. In 1876, he mounted an unsuccessful presidential bid with the Prohibition Party. He died in 1895.