John Montgomery Smith (February 26, 1834 – May 14, 1903) was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
His father, William Rudolph Smith, was the 5th Attorney General of Wisconsin.
John Montgomery Smith was born in 1834, in Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania, and moved to the Wisconsin Territory with his parents at age 4.
He was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Wisconsin in 1879, but fell far short of incumbent Republican Alexander Wilson.
[3] He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Iowa County district in 1892,[4][1] but did not stand for re-election in 1894.