Jean Edward Smith is a biographer and the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. He is also professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years. Smith is also on the faculty of the Master of American History and Government program at Ashland University. The winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize and the 2002 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Smith's been called "today?s foremost biographer of formidable figures in American history." 

October 13th, 1932 in Washington, D.C. (Age 92)