Senator Smith would have been William Smith, a U. S. senator. I do not see a connection to the Barrons but in case you see a connection here is a newspaper column I once wrote on Senator Smith: PETTUS--York Observer, May 15, 1988. WILLIAM SMITH, EARLY POLITICIAN William Smith (1762-1840) achieved higher state and national offices than any other York County political figure, yet his name and achievements are rarely mentioned in accounts of York politics. Smith's early life was obscure. None of the records tell the name of his parents or agree upon his birthplace. Part of the reason was Smith's refusal to divulge, even to his own family, anything about himself. The family guessed that he was born in either 1762 or 1763 in an area known as "The Waxhaws," which was claimed by both North Carolina and South Carolina before 1772. Smith's granddaughter once said that he was born in South Carolina but the boundary line change placed the home in North Carolina. Smith's parents may have been Roger and Elizabeth Smith who were the only recorded Smiths living in the neighborhood of the boundary line. Smith is supposed to have gone to school with Andrew Jackson at (he was 5 years older than Jackson). After attending the Waxhaw Academy Smith enrolled in the Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro, where he is said to have been a fine scholar of Latin and Greek. When he was 19, Smith married Margaret Duff who was only 14. They had one daughter, Mary Margaret, who married John Taylor, a U. S. Congressman from Pendleton District.. When Smith was 21 he began practice of law in Yorkville, becoming Yorkville's first resident lawyer. His wife was his secretary and by hard work and shrewd investments Smith prospered. Courthouse records show that he acquired 3,117 acres in property along the Broad River, in the village of Pinckneyville, and on Turkey, Fishing and Bullock Creeks. His home on Cleveland Avenue in York was the first site of the Yorkville Female Academy. Smith's first elective office was to the South Carolina House in 1796. >From 1803-1808 Smith served in the South Carolina Senate. He resigned his Senate seat to become judge of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas. In 1816, Smith was chosen by the South Carolina legislature to fill an unexpired term in the United States Senate. The same day he was elected to a full term. When he failed to gain reelection in 1822, Smith returned to Yorkville and continued his law practice. Then, in 1826 he filled out 4 years of another unexpired U. S. Senate term. Twice he was elected President Pro Tempore of the U. S. Senate but failed to be reelected by South Carolina in 1830. Known for his rudeness and sarcasm in debate, Smith had made many political enemies. About Smith, the historian William W. Freehling wrote that he had "the angelic face and wide-eyed stare of an innocent child. Seldom have appearances so completely belied the man. In an age when fiery personal controversies often dominated national politics, Smith stood second to no one in the malignity in which he carried on a personal attack. [Yet]...No Calvinist ever placed more faith in the text of the Bible than Smith bestowed on the words of the Constitution." Smith was a staunch Unionist and during the Nullification controversy he so strongly differed with John C. Calhoun that he left the state, saying that he would not live in a state so strongly dominated by one man. Because of Smith's support of Andrew Jackson, he was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1836. Smith declined. the honor but continued in politics by serving in the Alabama House of Representatives. In 1838 Smith owned 7,000 acres of land in Louisiana and 6,000 acres in Alabama. By that time he had disposed of his York District holdings. When Smith died in 1840 he had two heirs, his wife and a granddaughter. For years, in each of his many moves, he had carried the bones of his beloved deceased daughter. When Smith was buried on his plantation near Huntsville, Alabama, his daughter's bones were buried with him.