Thomas Smith was the governor of Carolina from 1693-1694, a planter, a merchant and a surgeon. He arrived in Charles Town in 1684 with his first wife Barbara Atkins and his sons Thomas and George. He was a cacique by 1690 and was made landgrave by the Lords Proprietors on May 13, 1691.
He died at age 46 year on November 16, 1694. His brick townhouse with a wharf on Cooper River was on the corner of East Bay & Longitude Lane.
Smith was born near Greenwood, Delaware, and moved with his parents to Ridgely, Maryland as a youth in 1856.
In 1894 and 1896, Smith served as a member of the Maryland State Senate, and was chief of the Maryland Bureau of Statistics and Information from 1900 to 1904.
Smith was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1904, serving the 1st Congressional district for one full term from March 4, 1905 to March 3, 1907, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906.
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