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Nathaniel Benedict Smith (December 7, 1795 – February 5, 1881) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. Smith, only child of the Hon Nathaniel Smith, Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, was born in Woodbury, December 7, 1795. His mother was Ruth Benedict, only daughter of the Rev. Noah Benedict, third pastor of the First Church in Woodbury. Smith graduated from Yale College in 1815. He studied law in the office of his uncle, the Hon. Noah B. Wikipedia