 Samuel Smith (Australian politician)

Samuel Smith (17 February 1857 – 22 January 1916) was an Australian politician

Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, to Samuel Smith and Marion Hunter, he attended school at Kilwinning and became a colliery lad at the age of eleven, becoming active in the Glasgow Railway and Seaman's Union.In 1882 he arrived in Sydney and helped found the local Seamen's Union, of which he was assistant secretary in 1890 and secretary from 1891 to 1902.