{{Short description|American politician (1941–2023)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Ferr Smith | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | state_house = Mississippi | district = 27th | term_start = 1993 | term_end = 2016 | predecessor = | successor = | prior_term = | birth_date = {{birth date|1941|9|10}} | birth_place = Leake County, Mississippi, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|11|5|1941|9|10}} | death_place = | profession = | party = Democratic }}
'''Ferr Smith''' (born September 10, 1941) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented the 23rd District in the Mississippi House of Representatives, being first elected in 1992 and serving until 2016. He was a member of the Democratic party.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ferr Smith|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/3722/ferr-smith|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=April 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ferr Smith |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Ferr_Smith |access-date=December 15, 2025 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Ferr Smith, who was Black, was the great-grandson of Presley Groves, a white legislator who served in the House for Leake County, the same county that Smith served for, in 1886 and again in 1900-1902, as well as serving in the state senate in 1888-1890 and again in 1904-1906. Smith's great-grandmother was Groves's Black mistress. For college, Smith attended Mississippi Valley State, followed by getting a law degree from Ole Miss Law School.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ferr Smith's story immersed in history|newspaper=Columbian-Progress|date=April 8, 1993|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/columbian-progress-ferr-smiths-story-im/165434042/|first=Bill|last=Minor|page=4}}</ref>
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