Nathan Button Smith (December 3, 1841 – April 13, 1920) was an American lawyer and politician from Pulaski, New York.
[1] He was the son of Nathan J. Smith, a store owner and member of the Vermont General Assembly, and Alzina Button, the daughter of farmer and Vermont Senate member Frederick Button.
He spent a few months studying in the law office of Governor John Wolcott Stewart of Middlebury.
He studied law in the office of S. C. Huntington, and in 1868 he was admitted to the bar and began working as a lawyer.
In 1868, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Oswego County 3rd District.