David Shiverick Smith (January 25, 1918 – April 13, 2012)[1] was the United States ambassador to Sweden from 1976–1977.
[2] Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Anna (née Shiverick) and Floyd Monroe Smith.
[3][4] He was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a trustee of the National Cultural Center.
Smith was a board member of the Council of American Ambassadors.
He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College (where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa), the Sorbonne, and Columbia University Law School.