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Smith was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
During the American Revolutionary War, he served in the Continental Army and participated in the Battle of Brandywine.
He graduated from Princeton in 1781 and began to practice law in Maryland.
Smith became the Presidential Elector in the Electoral College for Maryland in 1789, then a member of state's senate from 1793 to 1795, and finally a member of Maryland's house of delegates from 1796 to 1800.
President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as Secretary of the Navy in July, 1801 after William Jones declined the position.
On March 2, 1805, the Senate confirmed the appointments of Smith as United States Attorney General and Jacob Crowninshield as Secretary of the Navy.
However, Crowninshield declined his appointment, so Smith briefly served as both Attorney General and Secretary of the Navy.
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