Thomas Scott Williams

Thomas Scott Williams ( born June 26, 1777 Wethersfield, Connecticut, † December 15 1861 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good primary education until 1794 Thomas Williams visited the Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1799 admitted to the bar he began in Mansfield to work in his new profession. In 1803 he moved to Hartford. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. In the years 1813, 1815 and 1816 Williams was a member of the House of Connecticut. In the state- wide discharged congressional elections of 1816, he was for the seventh parliamentary seat of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lyman Law on March 4, 1817. But until March 3, 1819, he graduated only one term in Congress.

In the years 1819, 1825 and 1827 to 1829, Williams was again a deputy in the House of Representatives of his State. In 1829 he was appointed associate judge of the Supreme Court of Errors. Between 1831 and 1835, Williams was also mayor of Hartford. Since May 1834, he served as Chief Justice Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court This office he held until his resignation in 1847. Since 1848 until his death in December 1861, he was president of the American Tract Society of New York.