Wilford Horace Smith

Wilford Horace Smith (April 1863 - June 9, 1926) was an American lawyer who specialized in constitutional law.

He was the first African-American lawyer to win a case before the Supreme Court of the United States, Carter v.

[1] Historian R. Volney Smith called him "the best lawyer" arguing against southern laws disenfranchising African Americans in the Jim Crow era, "unassuming, ambitious, and brilliant.

[4] He attended Boston University School of Law and graduated in 1883.

He married in 1895, and around the same year moved to Galveston, Texas to practice law.