Abram Williams

Abram Pease Williams ( born February 3, 1832 in New Portland, Somerset County, Maine, † October 17, 1911 in San Francisco ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of California in the U.S. Senate.

Hailing originally from New England Abram Williams attended the public schools in Maine and 1846-1848 the North Anson Academy. Later he was in North Anson himself a teacher before he moved in 1853 to Fairfield, where he was commercially active. In 1858 he moved to California. There, his interest first mining in Tuolumne County, before he returned in the commercial sector.

1861 Williams settled finally in San Francisco down. He was active in the import trade, as farmers and as farmers. After the founding of the dealers association ( Board of Trade ) of San Francisco, that he had conducted a major, he became its first president. He also belonged to the Chamber of Commerce of the city.

When the U.S. Senator John Franklin Miller died in March 1886 Abram Williams was elected to succeed him in Congress. There he took his place on the 4th August the same year, before retiring again from the chamber on March 3, 1887 he had not applied for re-election.

After returning to the West Coast Williams went back to his business in San Francisco, where he died in 1911.