John Witherspoon Smith (ca. 1778-1829) was the son of Samuel Stanhope Smith and a grandson of John Witherspoon. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1795, the same year his father succeeded Witherspoon as the institution’s president. Smith moved from New York to New Orleans in 1805 and served as clerk of the superior court until Governor Claiborne removed him in 1807. He remained in Louisiana and later secured appointments as U.S. attorney and as a judge of the state criminal court in New Orleans (Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary [Princeton, 1980], 42, 50-1; Syrett, Hamilton description begins Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, New York, 1961-87, 27 vols. description ends , 25:563-4; Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962- , 41 vols.; Sec. of State Ser., 1986- , 11 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984- , 10 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009- , 3 vols. description ends , Pres. Ser., 1:115-17; 2:30-1; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934-75, 28 vols. description ends , 9:598, 749; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 3:232, 234, 401, 405, 624, 629; Moser, Papers of Andrew Jackson description begins Harold D. Moser and others, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Knoxville, 1980-  , 10 vols. description ends , 7:23-4; Louisiana Courier, 18 Nov. 1829; New-York Evening Post, 7 Dec. 1829).