# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilford-horace-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:31:26.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilford-horace-smith"
name: "Wilford Horace Smith"
slug: "wilford-horace-smith"
description: "Wilford H. Smith was an African-American lawyer who was active in Mississippi, Texas, New York and Alabama between 1883 and 1926. In 1900 Smith became the first black attorney to win a case before the United States Supreme Court with Carter v. Texas , a case which reinforced the principle that the constitutional rights of black defendants were violated when they were unable to defend themselves against racial discrimination in jury selection. He also won a second jury discrimination case before the Supreme Court, Dan Rogers v. State of Alabama , and unsuccessfully argued two voting rights cases, Giles v. Harris  and Giles v. Teasley , in a bid for recognition that state laws facilitating racially discriminatory practices in voter registration were unconstitutional violations of black men's civil rights. During his long and wide-ranging legal career Smith's clients included Booker T. Washington in the 1900s and 1910s, and Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the early 1920s."
tagline: "African-American lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilford_H._Smith.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1863"
deathDate: "1926-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.49
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.472462666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump