George Fairlamb Smith (February 28, 1840 – October 18, 1877) was an American soldier, politician, and lawyer from West Chester, Pennsylvania.

He read law under his father until enlisting in the Union Army upon the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861.

He resigned this commission to rise to the rank of major of the 61st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment effective March 14, 1862.

[7] Smith received a temporary discharge for disability on April 23, 1863, due to typhoid fever and/or dysentery, returning to his regiment on May 4.

[9] Smith was twice wounded, including a serious injury to the lower leg, while attacking Confederate positions at the so-called Bloody Angle during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864.

[2] He was recommissioned as colonel of the same regiment on September 29, 1864, and was honorably discharged by special order on April 20, 1865, near the war's end.

Hartranft also appointed him to serve on a commission to select a site to build an insane asylum for Chester, Bucks, Delaware, and Montgomery counties.