Milo Smith

Milo Smith
Mayor of Chattanooga
In office 1862–1863
Preceded by	James Cartwright Warner
Succeeded by	Military Occupation (1863–1865) Richard Henderson (1865)
In office 1850–1852
Preceded by	Thomas Crutchfield Sr.
Succeeded by	Henry White Massengale
In office 1842–1844
Preceded by	Beriah Frazier
Succeeded by	Joseph Strong Gillespie
Personal details
Born	1807 Dayton, Tennessee
Died	September 25, 1869

Milo Smith (1807 – 25 September 1869) was an American medical doctor and owner of the leading medical practice in the early days of Chattanooga, Tennessee, who served as mayor of the city in three different decades.^[1]

He was born at Smith's Cross Roads, now Dayton, Tennessee, in 1807, by William Smith and Elizibeth Cozby. Dr. Milo Smith attended the Philadelphia Medical School where he studied medicine and earned his M.D. He later went on to marry Caroline Lipscomb, daughter of Spotswood and Elizabeth Smith Pendleton Lipscomb, of Grainger County, Tennessee, on July 20, 1833, in Athens, Tennessee. Their daughter, Elizibeth Nisbet Smith, was the first white child born in the city of Chattanooga after its naming and their son, William Spotswood Smith, attended the medical school in Nashville and later worked on the medical staff for Dr. Samuel H. Stout in the Confederate Army. Smith was elected mayor of Chattanooga in 1842 and then again in 1843, making him the first mayor to ever serve two terms both consecutively and all together. He served as mayor again in from 1862 and 1863 until his office was abrogated by the Union Army during the occupation of Chattanooga. In total, Smith was served as mayor for seven individual terms; however, each was only a year long.^[2][3][4]