Professor Jean Edward Smith earned an A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1954 and a Ph. D. in Public Law and Government from Columbia University in 1964. He served for over thirty years on the faculty of the University of Toronto and, on numerous occasions, was appointed as a visiting professor at such noteworthy institutions as Dartmouth College, Princeton and Columbia universities, the University of Virginia and the Free University of Berlin. In the fall of 1999, Jean joined the Marshall faculty as the John Marshall Professor of Political Science. Professor Smith has to his credit a list of scholarly publications and presentations, including the authorship of 14 books. His biography of John Marshall is considered by most American historians as the definitive work on the life of the Great Chief Justice. And, since coming to Marshall, he has produced three additionally outstanding biographies: first, one on the life of Ulysses S. Grant which was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Biography; second, a biography of FDR which won the coveted Francis Parkman Award in 2008; and third, his highly acclaimed biography of Dwight Eisenhower which was published in 2012. Professor Smith is also the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Marshall University. After twelve years at Marshall, Jean joined the history department at Columbia University as Senior Scholar in Residence and then became a visiting professor at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. His biography of George W. Bush was published in July 2016, after which he returned to Marshall as the John Marshall Professor of Political Science Emeritus. In that capacity, he wrote The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2019, the seventy-fifth anniversary. Professor Smith passed away on September 1, 2019.