SMITH, William, governor of Virginia, born in King George county, Virginia, 6 September, 1796 ; died in Warrenton, Virginia, 18 May, 1887. He was educated at. classical schools in Virginia and Connecticut, began to practise law in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1818, and engaged in politics. After serving the Democratic party in a dozen canvasses as a political speaker, he was chosen state senator in 1880, served five years, and in 1840 was elected to congress, but was defeated in the next canvass, his district having become strongly Whig. He then removed to Fauquier county, where in December, 1845, he was one day addressed as Governor Smith. He then heard for the first time that, without consulting him, the Virginia legislature had chosen him governor for the term beginning 1 January, 1846. He removed to California in 1850, was president of the first Democratic convention that was held in that state, returned to Virginia the same year, and in 1853-'61 was a member of congress, during which service he was chairman of the committee on the laws of public printing. In June, 1861, he became colonel of the 49th Virginia infantry, and he was chosen soon afterward to the Confederate congress, but he resigned in 1862 for active duty in the field. He was promoted brigadier-general the same year, and severely wounded at Antietam. He was re-elected governor in 1863, served till the close of the war, and subsequently sat for one term in the state house of delegates. Although he was never a student of statesmanship, he was a marvellously adroit politician, and few members of the Democratic party were furnished with so large a number of ingenious pleas. As a. soldier he was noted, on the contrary, for valor rather than tactical skill. Throughout his long career he was a familiar figure in many legislative bodies, and his eccentricities of habit and his humor endeared him to his constituents. In early manhood he established a line of post-coaches through Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, on which he contracted to carry the United States snail. His soubriquet of "Extra Billy," which clung to him throughout his life, grew out of his demands for extra compensation for that service.--His cousin, William Waugh, educator, born in Warrenton, Pauquier County, Virginia, 12 March. 1845, was educated at the University of Virginia and at Randolph Macon college, entered the Confederate service at seventeen years of age, fought through the war in the ranks, twice refusing commissions, and was wounded at the battles of Fair Oaks and Gettysburg. He was principal of Bethel academy in 1871-'8, when he became professor of languages in Randolph Macon, held office till 1886, and since that time has been president of that college. He has published "Outlines of Psychology" (New York, 1883), and "Chart of Comparative Syntax of Latin, Greek, French, German, and English" (1885).