Andrew Williams (congressman)

Andrew Williams ( born August 27, 1828 in Ormstown, Canada, † October 6, 1907 in Plattsburgh, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Williams enjoyed a modest education. He then went to commercial transactions. He emigrated in 1852 to the United States and settled in Plattsburgh in Clinton County. Between 1863 and 1865 he went to the manufacture of nails. He then pursued the mining of iron ore, was in the lumber trade and was involved in the manufacture of horseshoe nails and wagons. He was one of the founders in 1881 of the Iron National Bank in Plattsburgh, where he served there until 1888 as its president. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1874 for the 44th Congress, Williams was in the 18th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William A. Wheeler on March 4, 1875. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1878, he retired after the March 3, 1879 out of the Congress.

He spent two years in the Board of Supervisors of Dannemora Plattsburgh and represented a number of years in a similar position. Between 1889 and 1902 he was superintendent of the water works of Plattsburgh. We chose him in 1890 to the county treasurer. He was reelected in 1893, 1896, 1899, 1902 and 1905. He was also a member of the Education Committee. On October 6, 1907, he died in Plattsburgh and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery.