WALTER I. SMITH, one of the youngest, though most prominent members of the bar of Council Bluffs, is a native of this city, born July 10, 1862. His father, George F. Smith, was an early resident of Council Bluffs. Mr. Smith was educated in the public schools of this city, graduating at the high-school, in the class of 1878. He began the study of law in August, 1881, in the office of Colonel D. B. Dailey, and was admitted in December, 1882. After his admission he continued with Colonel Dailey until 1885, since which time he has been alone in practice. Mr. Smith, though one of the youngest members of the bar of Pottawattamie County, has already taken high rank as a lawyer, and is recognized as a young man of marked ability, whose future gives promise of a most successful and useful career. Mr. Smith is a most industrious student of his profession, and a gentleman of extensive and varied reading, and is numbered among the progressive and enterprising citizens of Council Bluffs, where all his life, thus far, has been passed. June 19, 1890, at the age of twenty-seven, he was unanimously nominated for the office of District Judge by the Republican Judicial Convention of the Fifteenth District of Iowa, composed of' the counties of Audubon, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills, Montgomery, Fremont and Page, and was elected November 4th following, running 667 votes ahead of his ticket in Pottawattamie County.