Edmund Munroe Smith (December 8, 1854 – April 13, 1926) was an Americanjurist andhistorian.
Smith was born inBrooklyn, New York, the son of Horatio Southgate Smith and his wife, Susan Dwight Munroe.[1] He received hisA.B. fromAmherst College in 1874 and hisLL.B. fromColumbia Law School in 1877.[2] In 1879, Smith returned to Amherst to earn anA.M. degree.[2] He received the degree ofJ.U.D. from theUniversity of Göttingen in 1880.[2]
In 1890, Smith married Emma Gertrude Huidekoper, daughter of GeneralHenry S. Huidekoper.[1] They had one daughter, Gertrude Munroe Smith, born in 1891.[1] Smith's brother,Henry Maynard Smith (he changed his name to Henry Smith Munroe), was also a professor atColumbia, and served as Dean of theSchool of Mines from 1891 to 1915. Smith's great-granddaughter isMeg Whitman, former CEO ofeBay and candidate forGovernor of California.
Smith filled several posts atColumbia University from 1880 onwards. He was a lecturer inRoman law and an instructor in history from 1880 to 1883.[2] He was promoted to adjunct professor of history in 1883, and became a full professor of Roman law and comparative jurisprudence in 1891.[2] Smith was one of the founders of thePolitical Science Quarterly, and served as its managing editor from 1886 to 1893 and again from 1904 to 1913.[3]
He retired from teaching in 1924 and died ofpneumonia in 1926 at the age of seventy-one.[4]
His works include:
He wrote articles on Roman law and cognate subjects for theNew International Encyclopedia.
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