Nathaniel Benedict Smith (December 7, 1795 – February 5, 1881) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician.
Noah B. Benedict, of Woodbury, and at Judge Tapping Reeve's Law School in Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1818.
He began practice in New Haven, but was soon obliged by his father's infirm health to return to Woodbury, and after two or three years found his time so much engrossed by the care of his father's large landed property that he withdrew from his profession.
But his inclination and ambition did not lead him to seek public honors, and for the remainder of his life he was content to be interested in his farm.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1881 Yale Obituary Record.