George F. Smith


George F. Smith was an early Wisconsin Territory legislator from White Oak Springs who served in the first and second sessions of the 1st Wisconsin Territorial Legislature as a member of the House of Representatives from Iowa County. He resigned after the second session, and was succeeded by James Collins (Wisconsin and [California politician)|James Collins] during the June 1838 special session.
At various times between 1845 and 1848, notifications were posted in local papers about efforts to collect debt owed by Smith to one William Field, and several parcels of land in White Oak Springs and elsewhere in La Fayette County were sold in a government auctions#Sale of [private property in a public auction|sheriff's sale].
In a June 1877 newspaper article about pioneering legislators, he is listed as "included among the dead, on rumor which is possibly not well founded."