Bernard C. Smith (July 29, 1923 – October 19, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
[1] During World War II he served in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of lieutenant.
On November 1, 1979, he was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey as a member of the New York State Commission of Investigation.
[2] In 1990, he ran on the Republican ticket for New York Attorney General, but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat Robert Abrams.
Smith died while on vacation in the Catskill Mountains on October 19, 1993, in Kingston Hospital in Kingston, New York, of a brain tumor;[3] and was buried at the Northport Rural Cemetery.